II. SEVEN SOCIABLE CONVENTIONS - Festivity and Thoughtful Appraisal

The two conventions of thoughtful appraisal and festivity were very much alike in some ways, and quite opposite in others. Each of these conventions was rooted in the party as a whole, rather than in the composition of the episode. Each required a group situation, in which the contributions of one partner built upon another. Persons did not talk about themselves and their ordinary lives, except as these might contribute to the cooperative group product. Each might generate a kind of excitement compounded of pleasure in association and pleasure in the ongoing collective activity.

In other ways, these two conventions were opposite and incompatible.

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