SIMSOC: Simulated Society, Participant's Manual
Fifth Edition (participant's Manual)
Free Press · Print & ebook · July 24, 2000
The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.
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- Who it’s for
- SIMSOC’s participant manual guides a society simulation through power, justice, trust, leadership, and social processes.
- Genres
- Teaching Social Studies, Sociology, RPGs & Tabletop
- Published
- Free Press, July 24, 2000
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The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society. 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.
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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.
SIMSOC in Play
SIMSOC’s participant manual guides a society simulation through power, justice, trust, leadership, and social processes.
Come here for
- Instructions and materials for playing SIMSOC
- Study questions based on participation
Expect
- Labor-management strife, political turmoil, and natural disasters
- A fifth edition with rules for groups up to ninety
Where it sits
| Sociology | 43% |
|---|---|
| Teaching Social Studies | 38% |
| RPGs & Tabletop | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Leadership
- RPGs & Tabletop
- Sociology
- Authors
- William A. Gamson, Larry G. Peppers
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Published
- July 24, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Leadership