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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cormac Mc Namara (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9780367343095ISBN 10: 0367343096 Pages: 148 Publication Date: 21 November 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Research Approach 3. Responsibility-Shifting – part I & part II 4. Betting and Belonging 5. The Early Days of the Irish Betting Shop – 1926-1930 6. Gambling and Work in the 21st Century 7. Concluding RemarksReviewsAuthor InformationCormac Mc Namara is Lecturer in Social Science in the Faculty of Education at Northeast Normal University in China. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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