- Title
- On gambling research, social science and the consequences of commercial gambling
- Creator
- Livingstone, Charles; Adams, Peter; Cassidy, Rebecca; Markham, Francis; Rintoul, Angela
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/182383
- Identifier
- vital:16115
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2017.1377748
- Identifier
- ISBN:1445-9795 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Social, political, economic, geographic and cultural processes related to the significant growth of the gambling industries have, in recent years, been the subject of a growing body of research. This body of research has highlighted relationships between social class and gambling expenditure, as well as the design, marketing and location of gambling products and businesses. It has also demonstrated the regressive nature of much gambling revenue, illuminating the influence that large gambling businesses have had on government policy and on researchers, including research priorities, agendas and outcomes. Recently, critics have contended that although such scholarship has produced important insights about the operations and effects of gambling businesses, it is ideologically motivated and lacks scientific rigour. This response explains some basic theoretical and disciplinary concepts that such critique misunderstands, and argues for the value of social, political, economic, geographic and cultural perspectives to the broader, interdisciplinary field of gambling research. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Angela Rintoul” is provided in this record**
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- International Gambling Studies Vol. 18, no. 1 (2018), p. 56-68
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Anthropology; Gambling; Political economy; Social science; Sociology
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