Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem - An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Cormac McNamara
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-34309-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Research methods Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-34309-6
Barcode:	9780367343095

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