Open AccessGambling and the human condition: Transcending the deviant mystique
Author(s) -
Scott Grills
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of gambling issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 1910-7595
DOI - 10.4309/jgi.2004.10.5
Subject(s) - cognitive reframing , ethnography , elite , reading (process) , context (archaeology) , sociology , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , aesthetics , anthropology , history , art , linguistics , philosophy , political science , politics , law , archaeology
Henry Lesieur's (1977) The Chase belongs to a rather elite group of ethnographic texts. It is a volume that transcends its substantive area to elucidate generic aspects of the human condition. In this essay I encourage a reframing and re-reading of the text in light of generic social process theory. Lesieur's work places gambling in the context of community life and, by so doing, resists what Prus and Grills (2003) have characterized as the deviant mystique.