Gambling Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Instrumentalization of Gambling and Late Modern Culture

This article addresses significant cultural macro-processes shaping legalized gambling as a mass consumer market, which also serve various state and private industry ends. The processes examined here are “instrumentalization” and rationalization, explored through the seminal formulations of Max Web...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jim Cosgrave
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta Library 2022-03-01
Series:Critical Gambling Studies
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Online Access:https://criticalgamblingstudies.com/index.php/cgs/article/view/81