I. Introduction: Social Action and Play -- 1.1 Sociological Interest in Game and Play -- 1.2 Contextual Inconsistencies and the Marginality of Games and Play -- 1.3 Some Studies of Contextual Inconsistencies -- 1.4 The Topic and its Methodological Frame -- 2. Consistency in Social Interaction -- 3. Some Phenomenological and Pragmatistic Theories of Relevance -- 3.1 Schรผtzโ Theory of Relevance -- 3.11 Thematic Relevance -- 3.12 Motivational Relevance -- 3.13 Interpretational Relevance -- 3.2 Gurwitschโ Theory of Relevance -- 3.3 Jamesโ Theory of Fringes and Peirceโ Abductive Reasoning -- 3.31 The First Stage of Inquiry: Abduction, which is Related to the Emergence of Incipient Events -- 3.32 The Second Stage: Deduction, which is Related to Typification -- 3.33 The Third Stage: Induction, which is Related to the Formation of Types -- 3.34 Summary -- 4. Social Inconsistencies and Social Types -- 4.1 The Structure of Social Relevance -- 4.2 The Rรดle of Play in Processes of Typification -- 4.3 The Notion of Typificatory Scheme -- 4.4 Gaps and Social Inconsistencies -- 4.41 Permanent Gaps -- 4.42 Definition of Social Inconsistencies -- 4.5 The Arisal of Social Types -- 4.51 The First Stage: Arisal of an Incipient Event -- 4.52 The Second Stage: Typification by the Incipient Event -- 4.53 The Third Stage: Type and Social Object -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5. Temporal Typification and Social Temporality -- 5.1 Typificatory Schemes and Social Temporality -- 5.11 Temporal Typification and Inner Time -- 5.12 A Necessary Condition for Social Temporality -- 5.13 Schรผtzโ Notion of โVivid Presentโ and Social Temporality -- 5.14 Parsonsโ โPattern Variablesโ and Social Temporality -- 5.2 Social Temporality and Incipient Events -- 5.21 Social Inconsistencies in Parsonsโ Frame of Pattern Variables -- 5.22 Incipient Events in Schรผtzโ Notion of We-Relation -- 5.23 A More Stringent Condition for Social Temporality -- 5.3 G. H. Meadโs Notion of the Present and Social Temporality -- 5.4 A Comparison with Some Notions of Sartre -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. Social Inconsistencies and Symbolic Types in Play -- 6.1 Reduction of Types in Play and Social Action -- 6.11 A First Characteristic of Play: Reduction of Types in Play -- 6.12 Reduction of Types as โEntlastungโ in Social Action -- 6.2 Social Limits and Symbolic Types in Play -- 6.21 Anomie, Social Relevance, and Symbolic Types -- 6.22 The Symbolic Type of the Fool -- 6.23 Social Limits: Anomie and Alienation -- 6.24 Play and Symbolic Types (Second Characteristic of Play) -- 6.25 Summary: The Nomic Rรดle of Play -- 6.3 The Rรดle of the Body in Play -- 6.31 The Body as Incipient Event -- 6.32 The Body in Play (Third Characteristic of Play) -- 7. Toward a Unified Theory of Game, Play, and Social Action -- 7.1 Common Symbolic Types in Play and Game -- 7.2 Inconsistencies and Relevance in Play, in Game, and in Social Action -- 7.3 The Closure of a Gameโs Typificatory Scheme -- 7.4 Conclusion: Game and Social Action -- 8. Team and Audience -- 8.1 Team and Audience: Theory -- 8.2 Practice: The Relation between Career Patterns and the Structure of Games -- 9. Conclusion: The Construction and Solution of Social Inconsistencies

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