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996576
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b750946
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The sociology of risk and gambling reader /\ edited by James F. Cosgrave.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, ©2006.
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xi, 435 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0415952212
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: 0415952220
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: 9780415952217
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: 9780415952224
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Fate, risk and security / Anthony Giddens -- Risk society revisited : theory, politics and research programmes / Ulrich Beck -- Risk and governmentality / Deborah Lupton -- Gambling as a sociological problem / David Downes [and others] -- The pursuit of chance / Gerda Reith -- On some motifs in Baudelaire / Walter Benjamin -- Observations on gambling in a lower class setting / Irving Zola -- Entertainment or imprudence? An ethnography of female bingo players / R. Maclure [and others] -- Playing with hope and despair : Bourdieu and the habitus of horse betting / Joan Allen -- Notes on a theory of gambling / Walter Benjamin -- The adventurer : 1911 / Georg Simmel -- Where the action is / Erving Goffman -- The experience of play / Gerda Reith -- Good losers / Frederick and Steven Barthelme -- State lotteries and the legitimation of inequality / David Nibert -- From the law of insurance to law of lottery : an exploration of the changing composition of the British state / Mike Neary and Graham Taylor -- The pathological gambler and the government of gambling / Alan F. Collins -- Busted flush : South Carolina's video-poker operators run a political machine / David Plotz.
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| Abstract
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"The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic essays on two of the most distinctive features of contemporary life: our risk-oriented society and the pervasiveness of gambling. In recent times, both work and social safety nets have become less secure, forcing individuals to assume many of the risks from states and corporations. As well, gambling-both as an institution and as a practice-has become endemic in late modern capitalist societies. The two phenomena are closely connected, and this reader paves the way for future discussions by offering a variety of sociological approaches. Sections cover sociological theories of risk and gambling, histories of gambling and its subcultures, the lived experience of gambling, and the state's role in overseeing the institutions of both risk management and gambling. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Gambling-- Social aspects.
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Risk-- Sociological aspects.
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Gambling-- Social aspects.
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Gambling-- Social aspects.
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Risk-- psykologiska aspekter.
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Risk-- Sociological aspects.
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Risk-- Sociological aspects.
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Spel om pengar-- sociologiska aspekter.
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Risk.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Gokken.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Risico nemen.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Gambling.
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Psychology.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/82
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HV6710.S65 2006
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WM 170 SOC 2006
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71.50bcl
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71.50.bcl
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| Added Entry
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Cosgrave, James F.,1959-
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