SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Outfielder
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Play is an important phase in children"s development it is their first exposure to taking on the roles of others and seeing themselves as others might see them. In other words, play is a first step to constructing a me. In playing the priest and administering communion to my siblings, i got a chance to imagine how a priest would see me when i went for communion. In play, there are no official rules about how to carry out the activity; the child makes it up as he or she goes along. On one occasion, a child might use her toy truck to build roads in a pile of dirt, on another occasion, she might use her truck to smash bugs. How play is done is limited only by the child"s (or the children"s) imagination. Games have rules and specific roles (batter, pitcher, catcher, outfielder); the rules specify how the person in each role participates.
