Gambling and the Contradictions of Consumption A Genealogy of the "Pathological" Subject
Gambling and the Contradictions of Consumption A Genealogy of the "Pathological" Subject
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赌博与消费矛盾“病态”主体的谱系
DOI：
10.1177/0002764207304856
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Reith G
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作者：
Reith G
本文认为，“问题赌博”作为一种独特的社会现象的出现，是表达后现代消费社会潜在矛盾的话语和社会经济形态的特殊趋同的结果。尽管赌博在历史上一直被批评为破坏了生产伦理，但今天，问题赌博的概念是用与基于自我控制、自我实现、责任和理性的价值观的“消费伦理”意识形态相对立的术语来表述的。这与更广泛的社会经济趋势有关，在这种趋势下，外部监管形式的减少与个人自我控制需求的上升相匹配，而自我控制是通过消费进行的。就赌博而言，该行业的自由化和放松管制，以及个人参与者自我管理的同时预期，表达了消费资本主义固有的紧张关系，并为问题赌徒作为一种独特的历史类型的出现创造了条件。
This article argues that the emergence of “problem gambling” as a distinct social phenomenon is the result of a particular convergence of discourses and socioeconomic formations that express the underlying contradictions of late-modern consumer societies. Although historically gambling has been criticized for undermining the ethic of production, today the notion of problem gambling is articulated in terms that are oppositional to the ideology of a “consumption ethic” based on the values of self-control, self-actualization, responsibility, and reason. This is related to wider socioeconomic trends whereby the decline of external forms of regulation is matched by rising demands for individual self-control, which is conducted through consumption. In the case of gambling, the liberalization and deregulation of the industry and the simultaneous expectation that individual players govern themselves express the tensions inherent in consumer capitalism and create the conditions for the emergence of the problem gambler as a unique historical type.