The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western CulturePsychology Press, 1999 - 207 halaman This fascinating and extensive study, enlivened by interviews with British and American gamblers, will be enthralling reading not just for those interested in the cultural and social implications of gambling - researchers in sociology, cultural studies and the history of ideas - but for anyone interested in how we create meaning in an increasingly insecure world. |
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The idea of chance | 13 |
CHANCE AND DETERMINISM | 19 |
Pascal | 25 |
Chance in Britain | 31 |
Risk | 39 |
Dice | 45 |
Lots | 54 |
Speculation | 60 |
Playgrounds a map of the modern gambling sites | 88 |
The lottery | 98 |
Bingo | 104 |
The bookmaker | 111 |
www casino com | 123 |
The experience of play | 126 |
The magicalreligious worldview | 156 |
References | 185 |
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action activity Age of Chance ancient appeared aristocratic Ashton Baudrillard became become belief betting bingo bookmakers bourgeoisie British Caillois cards casino Chapter classical clubs commercial commercialisation culture described Despite dice divination divinatory Dostoevsky dreams economic efficacy eighteenth emerged environment everyday excitement existence experience of play fate favour forms of gambling gamblers gambling games games of chance Gigerenzer Goffman Huizinga human individual Internet involved Kavanagh knowledge Las Vegas law of large lose lottery luck lucky machines magical Mahabharata meaning medieval modern National Lottery nature nineteenth century notion odds ontological organisation orientation outcome participation perception Plato players poker potlach probabilistic probability theory punters race race-track random rate of play rational recognised regarded relation religious repetition risk ritual roulette scientific sense seventeenth century simply situation skill slot-machine social society space specific stake status tickets tradition uncertainty Vegas vertigo wager wealth winning working-class worldview