Bewertungsspiele. Von der Handlungs- zur Koordinationstheorie

Stachura, Mateusz

doi:10.1007/s11577-016-0401-6

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“…We define a social game as a form of organization of the social sphere that combines one or several goals, rules, representations, resources, and context and that involves interaction between various players with various attributes (Klabbers, 2018; Stachura, 2017; Swedberg, 2001). Social games include parlor games that are played “for fun,” as well as all other forms of social interaction.…”

Section: Mixed Methods Theorizing the Theory Of Social Games And Gamentioning

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The Titanic Game: Introducing Game Heuristics to Mixed Methods Theorizing and Data Analysis

Stolz

Lindemann

2019

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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Despite tremendous interest in social games and game studies, the potential of game heuristics for the field of mixed methods remains unknown. This article introduces game heuristics to mixed methods research, showing how it was used in a specific study on the survival probabilities on the Titanic. Specifically, we describe how game heuristics was used to create the explanandum, code and interpret the qualitative material, and set up and interpret the quantitative model. Furthermore, we show and explicate how game heuristics was used to construct seven types of meta-inferences. The Titanic data set is especially interesting, since it is routinely used for statistical mono-method teaching; however, it can be shown that a mixed methods approach leads to a better explanation.

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Section: Mixed Methods Theorizing the Theory Of Social Games And Gamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Titanic Game: Introducing Game Heuristics to Mixed Methods Theorizing and Data Analysis

Stolz

Lindemann

2019

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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“…In this paper, we use a social games perspective, which means that providing a sociological explanation involves describing a causal relationship that is transmitted through a social game. A social game is an interaction between players (with their attributes) that involves goals, rules, resources, and representations, in a temporal and spatial context (Klabbers 2003;Stachura 2017;Swedberg 2001). The methodology linked to the theory of social games may be called "game heuristics" and invites us to search empirically for the most important features of the social game played by the actors in a given situation and then to explain by showing how a change in a game parameter (i.e.…”

Section: Sociological Explanationsmentioning

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Sociological explanation and mixed methods: the example of the Titanic

2018

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The question of how and with what methods the social sciences should explain phenomena is fiercely contested. While several scholars have argued that mixed methods may help to improve sociological explanations, there is a lack of highly visible examples that show the added value of this methodology. The goal of this paper is to show that the case of the Titanic, and the question of who survived and for what reasons, can be seen as such an example. The Titanic tragedy is the most well-known maritime disaster of modern history, and the Titanic dataset is a widely used and first-rate example for the teaching of mono-method statistical explanation. We demonstrate that a mixed-method explanation is superior to a mono-method explanation in that it clarifies not only the relationships between variables, but also the mechanisms that led to the co-variations. Among the most important mechanisms, we find that the rule "women and children first" was interpreted differently by different actors, and that this, together with the fact that different classes of passengers had different levels of access to the boat deck, explains much of the gender/ class differences in terms of survival that we can observe. We conclude by discussing the lessons that can be drawn from the example for sociological explanatory work more generally.

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Mündige Verbraucher – eine praxistheoretische Revision

Cannaday

2020

Konsumsoziologie Und Massenkultur

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Bewertungsspiele. Von der Handlungs- zur Koordinationstheorie

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

The Titanic Game: Introducing Game Heuristics to Mixed Methods Theorizing and Data Analysis

The Titanic Game: Introducing Game Heuristics to Mixed Methods Theorizing and Data Analysis

Sociological explanation and mixed methods: the example of the Titanic

Mündige Verbraucher – eine praxistheoretische Revision

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