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The Racing Game (Hardcover)
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The Racing Game (Hardcover)
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This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and
spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest boys," the
"gyps," the "manipulators," the "stoops," and the "Chalk
eaters"--the constituents of race track society and the players of
the racing game. With scientific precision and journalistic vigor,
Scott describes the everyday activities--the objectives and
strategies--of those whose lives are organized around track
proceedings and who compete with chance and one another. The
players in the racing game range from track owners to stable boys,
from law enforcers to lawbreakers, and from casual sportsmen to
pathologically addicted gamblers. Considering the self-interests,
the normative and operational codes, and the interactional
relationships among the major types and subtypes of participants,
the author defines the components of strategic movement within the
framework of rules and resources to show how a player's relations
to the "means of production" governs his behavior. The fruitful
application of sociological theory and method to an unusually
interesting social context makes this particularly useful still for
courses in social problems and the sociology of organizations and
of leisure.
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