The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader 1st Edition by James Cosgrave 9780415952224 0415952220

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ISBN 10: 0415952220

ISBN 13: 9780415952224

Author: James F. Cosgrave

This reader contributes to the sociology of gambling, and offers a variety of sociological approaches, ranging from classical sociological analyses of gambling to contemporary sociological approaches to risk.

Table of contents:

Section 1 Sociological Approaches to Risk and Gambling

Chapter 1 Fate, Risk and Security

Chapter 2 Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes

Chapter 3 Risk and Governmentality

Chapter 4 Gambling as a Sociological Problem

Section 2 Gambling Histories/(Sub)cultures

Chapter 5 The Pursuit of Chance

Chapter 6 On Some Motifs in Baudelaire

Chapter 7 Observations on Gambling in a Lower-Class Setting

Chapter 8 Entertainment or Imprudence? An Ethnography of Female Bingo Players

Chapter 9 Playing with Hope and Despair: Bourdieu and the Habitus of Horse Betting

Section 3 Adventure, Action, and Play: Gambling as Social Action

Chapter 10 Notes on a Theory of Gambling

Chapter 11 The Adventurer: 1911

Chapter 12 Where the Action Is

Chapter 13 The Experience of Play

Chapter 14 Good Losers

Section 4 The State, Regulation, and Politics

Chapter 15 State Lotteries and the Legitimation of Inequality

Chapter 16 From the Law of Insurance to the Law of Lottery: An Exploration of the Changing Compositi

Chapter 17 The Pathological Gambler and the Government of Gambling

Chapter 18 Busted Flush: South Carolina’s Video-Poker Operators Run a Political Machine

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