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Gambling, Losses and Self-Esteem An Interactionist Approach to the Betting Shop
By Cormac Mc Namara
Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. 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 Remarks
Biography
Cormac Mc Namara is Lecturer in Social Science in the Faculty of Education at Northeast Normal University in China.
