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(2018): Alibis for Adult Play. A Goffmanian Account of Escaping Embarrassment in Adult Play. In: Games and culture 13 (3), S. 260-279. DOI: 10.1177/1555412017721086
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29706842 Abstract: The social meanings of play sit at odds with norms of responsible and productive adult conduct. To be "caught" playing as an adult therefore risks embarrassment. Still, many designers want to create enjoyable, nonembarrassing play experiences for adults. To address this need, this article reads instances of spontaneous adult play through the lens of Erving Goffman's theory of the interaction order to unpack conditions and strategies for nonembarrassing adult play. It identifies established frames, segregated audiences, scripts supporting smooth performance, managing audience awareness, role distancing, and, particularly, alibis for play: Adults routinely provide alternative, adult-appropriate motives to account for their play, such as child care, professional duties, creative expression, or health. Once legitimized, the norms and rules of play themselves then provide an alibi for behavior that would risk being embarrassing outside play.
Keywords: accounts, adult play, adulthood, alibi, BEHAVIOR, Disziplin, embarrassment, Erving Goffman, frame analysis, Goffman, IDENTITY, Interaktion, Kulturtheorie, MODELS, play, motivational accounting system, Rechtfertigung, role distance, script, Spiel, spielen, theory of interaction, Theory of interaction (Goffman), TRANSITION, VOCABULARIES, Wissen um Normen, WORK 2009
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(2009): Humor theory and the fear of being laughed at. In: Humor - International Journal of Humor Research 22 (1-2). DOI: 10.1515/HUMR.2009.003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/HUMR.2009.003 Abstract: Systematic empirical research into the extent to which individuals in different societies fear being laughed at is new and has implications for humor theory. Humor theorists such as Hobbes and Bergson implicitly assume that such fears were generally at a high level and both Hobbes' superiority theory of laughter and Bergson's view of it as a social corrective depend on this assumption. They purport to be general theories but are in fact the product of the particular societies in which those philosophers' lived and whose mores they took for granted. However, we can use their work to generate hypotheses that can in the future be tested against the comparative empirical data now being produced. In particular we should pay attention is the social variables of shame, face, etiquette and embarrassment on the one hand, and hierarchy, status divisions and power on the other, as probably having explanatory power. aus psycINFO 2009-05381-003 accession number
Keywords: Bergson, embarrassment, Etiquette, FEAR, Hobbes, humor, humor theory, laughter, POWER, Shame, status division, Umgangsformen 1989
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(1989): Intimitat. Umgang mit Scham, Peinlichkeit und Sexualitat. In: Psychomed 1 (4), S. 236-239
Abstract: Anhand ausgewahlter Beispiele werden die Facetten der personlichen Intimitat und die zur Sicherung der Privatheit zumeist ausreichenden Scham-, Schuld-, Takt- und Peinlichkeitsgefuhle erlautert. Eingegangen wird dabei auf (1) die Grundelemente der Intimisierung, (2) Intimitatsbeweise durch zugelassene Beruhrungen durch andere, (3) Verletzungen der Korperintegritat, (4) die Intimitat des Mundraumes, (5) die Schamlosigkeit, (6) das Erleben der Menstruation, (7) die Intimitat der Paarbeziehung sowie (8) den Umgang mit Sterben und Tod. zitiert von 4
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