In Playing Sociology: Theory and Games for Coping with Mimetic Crisis and Social Conflict, Martino Doni and Stefano Tomelleri employ gaming as a lens through which they analyze the underlying and sometimes hidden aspects of social relationships and conventions.

"This book speaks of the social sciences and play not as two separate realities but as one intertwined experience: to study human behavior is already to put oneself in the game; it is already part of a great game that humanity have never fully learned. Play is not just an object of study but is also practice and method; in the second part, the authors present five sociological games that can be used as research tools and as training models for schools, companies, and work groups"--