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About conflict and competition during a game within an egalitarian and co-operative group-culture

Zu Konflikt und Kompetivität innerhalb einer egalitären und kooperativen Gruppenkultur in Spielsituationen

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Seit Maitz ‘und Borkers Theorie zweier geschlechtsspezifischer Kulturen spielen in Forschungsarbeiten zur Mädchen- und Jungeninteraktion Dichotomien wie „kooperativ“ versus „kompetitiv“ oder „egalitär“ versus „hierarchisch“ eine wichtige Rolle. An diese Konzepte und die Kritik daran knüpft der vorliegende Beitrag an. Datengrundlage bilden Gesprächsaufnahmen einer Gruppe adoleszenter Mittelschichtmädchen. Exemplarisch werden Gesprächssequenzen während Spielsituationen analysiert und diskutiert. In diesen Sequenzen geraten die Mädchen in den Konflikt, einerseits den Regeln des Spieles zu genügen, d.h. zu konkurrieren, andererseits aber eine gleichberechtigte Gruppenkultur aufrecht zu erhalten. Es zeigt sich, daß den Mädchen grundsätzlich daran gelegen ist, auch in Spielsituationen das Prinzip der Gleichheit interaktiv umzusetzen. Allerdings wird in Konfliktsequenzen auch die diffizile Balance und Flexibilität einer egalitären und kooperativen Gruppenkultur deutlich, in deren Rahmen auch individuelle Positionierungen möglich werden.

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Based on Maitz’s and Borker’s theory of two gender-specific cultures, work on interactions within girl and boy peergroups has relied heavily on dichotomies such as “cooperative” versus “competitive” or “egalitarian” versus “hierarchical”. This article builds both on Maitz’s and Borker’s framework and on the criticism it has received. The data were taken from tape-recordings of a group of adolescent middle-class girls. Sequences of conversation during game-playing activities will be analysed and discussed. In these sequences the girls’ experience the conflict of — on the one hand — having to comply with the rules of the game, that is, to compete with each other, and — on the other hand — having to uphold their egalitarian group-culture. The results show that girls strive to maintain interactively the principle of equality even during competitive games. Yet it becomes evident that in these conflictual sequences of interaction the precarious balance and also flexibility of an egalitarian and co-operative group culture manifests itself and in spite of the basically consensus-based ways of interaction, individual positions are possible.

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Branner, R. (2003). All or none?. In: Merkens, H., Zinnecker, J. (eds) Jahrbuch Jugendforschung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85157-4_4

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