An ethnographic study of the mafia game with an emphasis on its connection with society and consequences

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Mazandaran

2 Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Mazandaran

3 Master degree in youth studies, university of Mazandaran

10.30465/scs.2024.50227.2930

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the consequences of the mafia game in the interactions outside the game world. Also, understanding the connection that people see between the form and content of the game with real life in society (including roles, actions, and socio-political views). The current research is of the qualitative research type and the main method of this research is ethnographic method of interpretive ethnography and critical ethnography method. The process of selecting the peer community in this research has been done in a snowball type. 20 main categories were extracted from the obtained results. Knowing these categories showed that people have common concepts between game elements and real life in society, and these commonalities include roles and actions to their socio-political views; including the weakness of socio-political institutions and its alternative game space, the value of the role of citizens in the game as opposed to society, the persona as the basis of social presence in society and the game, the diversity of citizens' actions in the game and society, the representation of social trust in the game and society, the mafia as a representation of self-awareness And the individual and collective unconscious of

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Sociological Cultural Studies

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Available Online from 13 November 2024

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