TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1976//
TI  - The Meaning of Rules and Rituals in Little League Baseball
JO  - Pacific sociological review
A1  - Watson, Geoffrey G.
A1  - Kando, Thomas M.
SP  - 291
EP  - 316
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
N2  - <p>Unlike the children's games described by Mead and Piaget, Little League Baseball is characterized by much external regulation and much ritual. It was hypothesized that rules would, in this case, not be viewed as a means of facilitating the execution of game events, but rather as a form of game control, i.e., social control. This hypothesis was verified. Furthermore, this tendency to view rules as a social control mechanism was found to be stronger among middle-class children than among the working-class respondents.</p><p /> 
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SN  - 0030-8919
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -