Ambivalenzen des Glücksspiels aus soziologischer Perspektive

Drews, Nikolai; Wuketich, Marius

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-24972-4_3

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“…Viewing the gambling offer or the gambling habit in terms of social structures instead of individuals comes close to how the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann developments by Wenning (2017) and Drews and Wuketich (2019), gambling studies have considered the topic, particularly from the perspective of how gambling-related phenomena are processed and conceptualised differently between disciplines and fields, i.e., systems. All systems process gambling differently.…”

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How Luhmann’s systems theory can inform gambling studies

Egerer

Marionneau

Virtanen

2020

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Gambling and problem gambling studies tend to be characterised by individual-based approaches both theoretically and methodologically, while sociological approaches remain underutilised or even marginal. In this study, we discuss the potential of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory in the analysis of gambling. As opposed to positivist or individualistic approaches, Luhmann’s work is strongly constructivist: neither systems nor their components are seen to be made up of individuals. Using systems theory in informing gambling research distances the research interests from individuals and directs it towards societal mechanisms, structures, and processes. Therefore, a systems theoretical approach can offer novel tools to study gambling, but also the paradigm of gambling research itself. This paper demonstrates how systems theory can critically inform gambling research through five operationalisations: gambling as a system, the gambling experience, the regulation of gambling economies, gambling providers as organisations, and systems theory as a methodological program. These five operationalisations can serve as an important window to widen perspectives on gambling.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%