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SIMSOC - Simulated Society Participant's Manual (5th Edition)

By: Free Press

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Role Playing Games (Free Press)


Product Info

Title
SIMSOC - Simulated Society Participant's Manual (5th Edition)
Publisher
Author
William A. Gamson, Larry G. Peppers
Publish Year
2000
Dimensions
8.25x11x.5"
NKG Part #
2148233039
Type
Softcover

Description

In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust, and leadership as they negotiate their way through labor-management strife, political turmoil, and natural disasters. Success or failure is dependent upon decisions made by players and the creativity of the group—and every game is a teaching tool.

To be successful, players must utilize every basic social process from cooperation and reward to threat and punishment. SIMSOC will make participants ask questions about social control, and bring everyday experience and deeper understanding to even the most arcane social and organizational theory.

Included in this Fifth Edition of SIMSOC's Participant's Manual are instructions for playing, materials for play, study questions based on participation, and selected readings about simulation games, leadership, and social processes. New to the Fifth Edition are additional size levels to accommodate groups of up to ninety participants with simplified rules and readings by authors from Nicholas Lemann to Robert Putnam.