Power, Intimacy, and Sexuality in the Fantasy Play of a Seven-Year-Old

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-337
Author(s):  
William A. Corsaro
Keyword(s):  
Fantasy Play

Working toward play: Complexity in children's fantasy activities

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn R. Whalen
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Pretend Play ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Fantasy Play ◽  
Complex Forms ◽  
Complex Features ◽  
Play Group ◽  
Mixed Age

ABSTRACTChildren's play activities are widely perceived as developing from primitive to increasingly complex forms of social organization, as children mature and acquire interactional competency. Research following this traditional, developmentally oriented approach postulates that sports and games with rules are the most advanced and complex form of play activity; activities involving fantasy and pretend-play are viewed in comparison as considerably less complex. This article argues that fantasy play encounters exhibit complex features in their own right, and that long-held distinctions between higher-order games and fantasy play are conceptually overdrawn. The argument is grounded in a conversation analytic study of the play activities of a cross-sex, mixed-age neighborhood play group. This analysis focuses on the endogenous social organization of a fantasy play encounter. (Conversation analysis, children's play, socialization, social psychology)

Social Pretend Play Among Friends and Familiar Preschoolers

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Jose Garcia Werebe ◽  
Pierre-Marie Baudonniere
Keyword(s):  
Pretend Play ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fantasy Play

The aim of the present study is to assess the role of partner familiarity in the organisation, duration, and content of spontaneous social pretend play in a triadic situation where two friends are in the presence of a third familiar child. Children were observed in a familiar room of their school, provided with two sets of matching objects. The sample comprised 120 children (60 girls and 60 boys) aged 3;0 to 5;0 years, forming 40 same-sex triads (20 female and 20 male). Each triad of classmates was made up of a dyad of friends, plus a familiar partner (not a friend). The findings showed that friends prefer each other as a partner in fantasy play: Play between friends is longer and richer than play with the third partner. The most important sexrelated differences involve the amount of time spent in pretend play. Girls spent nearly twice as much time in fantasy as boys. The use of two sets of identical objects for three children, without adult presence, constituted a powerful paradigm to evidence the effect of the degree of familiarity in children's interaction in general, and in pretend play in particular.

Observing fantasy play

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Linda Pound
Keyword(s):  
Fantasy Play

The Law of Sports Wagering in the United States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Standen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sports Betting ◽  
Fantasy Sports ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Daily Fantasy Sports ◽  
Fantasy Play ◽  
The Law

The law of sports wagering in the United States reflects the exceptionalism of sports. Although limitations on gambling in general have undergone significant liberalization in recent decades, sports wagering remains subject to a complex interplay among federal and state prohibitions. This exceptionalism stems from the notion that sports contests would be ineluctably corrupted by betting, potentially giving contestants unduly large investments in the outcome, or in shaping the magnitude of the victory. Despite this continuing antipathy toward sports betting as a matter of formal legality, recent legal developments have unwittingly created a burgeoning industry in sports betting, which industry has created significant instability in the general prohibition. Specifically, the rise of daily fantasy sports contests, which can feature contests that appear remarkably similar to single-game bets on the outcome of a game, has both evidenced the domestic appetite for sports wagering, and has pushed against the boundaries set by the anti-gambling prohibitions. The legality of daily fantasy sports is highly debatable, and calls into question the very nature of a sports bet as a game of chance or skill, and whether or not fantasy play presents a substantially different set of characteristics. Whatever the legal outcome, strong arguments exist that suggest that fantasy play would not give rise to the concerns that animated the general prohibition on sports wagering.

Observing parent‐child fantasy play

1974 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Strom
Keyword(s):  
Fantasy Play ◽  
Parent Child
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