THE “RULES” OF MOCKERY: FOLK HUMOR AND SYMBOLIC INVERSION IN GREEK CHILDREN’S PRETEND PLAY
THE “RULES” OF MOCKERY: FOLK HUMOR AND SYMBOLIC INVERSION IN GREEK CHILDREN’S PRETEND PLAY

Summary/Abstract: Traditional socialization theories support their arguments for play’s function as rehearsal of adult roles, primarily by emphasizing play situations, where reality is imitated. Play according to this structural functionalist model is seen in terms of social needs, while socialization is understood as replication of the existing social structure. (cf. GOUGOULIS, 1993: 157). Both the imitative characer of play and the conventional theory of socialization have been disputed by scholars interested in the process of social change (TURNER 1974; STUTTON-SMITH 1972) and by social scientists, who have adopted a subjectivist approach to children (e. g. HARDMAN 1974; SCHWARTZMAN 1977), known as the New Sociology of Childhood (JAMES–PROUT 1990).

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