Contents:
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introductions: Gambling, Risk, and Late Capitalism- James F Cosgrave-1
Section I Sociological Approaches to Risk Gambling-25
Chapter 1. Fate, Risk and Security-Anthony Giddens-29
Chapter 2. Risk Society Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes-Ulrich Beck-61
Chapter 3. Risk and Governmentality - Deborah Lupton-85
Chapter 4. Gambling as a Sociological Problem-David Downes, B. P. Davies, M.E. David and P. Stone-101
Section-2 Gambling Histories/(Sub) cultures-121
Chapter-5. The Pursuit of Chance -Gerda Reith-143
Chapter-6. On Some Motifs in Baudelaire-Walter Benjamin
Chapter-7 Observations on Gambling in a Lower-Class Setting -Irving Kenneth Zola-149
Chapter-8 Entertainment of Imprudence? An Ethnography of Female Bingo Players-163
Chapter-9 Playing with Hope and Despair: Bourdieu and the Habitus of Horse Betting-185
Section 3 Adventure, Action, and Play: Gambling as Social Action-207
Chapter- 10 Notes on a Theory of Gambling-211
Chapter-11. The Adventurer:1911-215
Chapter-12. Where the Action Is -225
Chapter-13. The Experience of Play-255
Chapter-14. Good Losers-291
Section-4. The State, Regulation, and Politics-315
Chapter-15. State Lotteries and the Legitimation of Inequality-319
Chapter-16. From the Law of Insurance to the Law of Lottery: An Exploration of the Changing Composition of the British State-339
Chapter-17. The Pathological Gambler and the Government of Gambling.
Chapter-18. Busted Flush: South Carolina's Video-Poker Operators Run a Political Machine-391
Suggestions for the Further Reading-411
Permissions-417
Index-419