Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem

An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08527-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

This book provides new insights into contemporary betting shops, with a particular focus on the manner in which losing bets are dealt with by customers. Drawing on research undertaken in Ireland, it demonstrates that customers tend to shift responsibility for monetary losses onto factors external to themselves as part of a collective process engaged in to restore self-esteem, and considers the role played by announcements made in betting shops in creating an atmosphere of inclusion - and the implications of this for ‘problem gambling’. Through an analysis of newspaper representations of the first legally operating betting shops in Ireland, which opened in the 1920s, the author places the contemporary betting shop in historical context and examines trends in gambling across the British Isles with reference to social class and the security or precarity of work. An interactionist study not only of gambling but also of responsibility and the connection between the micro-world and social structures, this volume will appeal to sociologists with interests in symbolic interactionism and strategies of blame.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mc Namara, Cormac

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Research Approach 3. Responsibility-Shifting – part I & part II 4. Betting and Belonging 5. The Early Days of the Irish Betting Shop – 1926-1930 6. Gambling and Work in the 21st Century 7. Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Cormac Mc Namara is Lecturer in Social Science in the Faculty of Education at Northeast Normal University in China.