Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem: An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop Contributor(s): MC Namara, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 1032085274 ISBN-13: 9781032085272 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Games & Activities | Gambling - General (see Also Self-help - Compulsive Behavior) - Social Science | Sociology - General - Self-help | Compulsive Behavior - Gambling |
Dewey: 795.01 |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.51 lbs) 156 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |