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The Sociological Explanation For The Phenomenon Of "Mafia" Sweeping Rapidly

Posted on:2013-10-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L P ChaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330374479804Subject:Sociology
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In recent years," Mafia" was swept up in many young people. The network of" Mafia " has been welcomed by young people of all ages. This article combined with sociological survey and related theory to explain the phenomenon why the" Mafia " was so popular from the aspects of macro and microcosmic sociology. Then some suggestions will be put forward for the future development of" Mafia ".Compared with traditional games, this new game has many special features. The players won the psychological experience beyond the reality. At the same time, they also released themselves from the game." Mafia " used the network as its media. The network promoted development of " Mafia " rapidly, from the" face Mafia " in " Mafia bar ", to "the network Mafia " in the network. The academic community has been concerning about online games particularly and has been analyzed of social, but few scholars studied "Mafia" popularly from a sociological perspective.This research is based on the survey of questionnaires and the investigation, combining with sociology theory and investigation data from microcosmic and macroscopical two aspects, and analyzed three parts.One is that what problem is existing in the" Mafia " which is so popular today.The first reason is that the players of " Mafia " is easy to form a cheating psychology for reaching their goals.The second reason is that the health of many young people is greatly affected because of indulging in" Mafia ".The third reason is that " Mafia " may impact of social stability and development because it is full of violence. Another part is that why so many problems are existing in the " Mafia ".Violence behavior is not banned in the " Mafia " and the players confused the reality and the online world, so they addicted to the " Mafia ".Psychological factors may impact the players by playing the " Mafia " and mental health issues may affect the growth of the players.The other part is to analysis how to solve these problems.Developers of" Mafia " should ban violence and other unhealthy behaviors in the rules and the content.Solving these problems should be from four aspects:school, family, enterprise, their own.This paper is divided into five parts. The first part is the introduction mainly to put forward background, purpose the content and the method of the research. The second part is the social interaction and social role theory concept and relative literature review, which is mainly focused on the narrative theory. The third part is the empirical study of the" Mafia ". The fourth part is analyzing why " Mafia " is so popular from sociology explanation and reflection. Summary is in the fifth part.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Mafia ", Social interaction, Social roles
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