Question

What games did you play as a child that you think of as agents of socialization? How did these games lead you to understand relationships or prepare for new ones? How did you or your friends subvert the standard images or messages of the toys or games that you played with?

Answer 1

It is true that Games act as a medium of socialization and helps in the development of the individual.since I am from Eastern country, Playing Games like carrom board game and badminton game helped me greatly in socialization. Since these games require involvement of two or more person, it becomes mandatory to convince other people for playing games with us with all their will and effort. When you play a game in such tender age of life, you are emotionally attached to that game and want to win the game but this doesn't work everytime. For example if you win the game you are happy but the other person wins, you become sad. But you can't remain sad for long as if you will behave in sad manner the next person would avoid playing with you for the next time, so just to maintain relationships you will cheer yourself and try to play better and eventually develop sportsmanship. Thus in this way games played in early life can help you to initiate and maintain healthy relationship in life. In order to subvert the image or message of the game, we opted to change the rules of the games. We moulded it according to our necessity for eg in carrom board game, when I can't effectively score my friends would do this out of love for me breaking the rules of the same and when I will ,we laughed and giggled to celebrate.