reading notes – Goffman – Encounters

has a chapter called Fun in Games (p. 17-84)

“games can be fun to play and fun alone is the approved reason for playing them. The individual, in contrast to his treation of “serous” activity, claims a right to complain about a game that does not pay its way in immediate plasure and, whether the game is pleasurable or not, to plead a slight excuse, such as an indisposition of mood, for not participating” p. 17)

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