Gambling and social control. A sociological study of the emergence of a new regime of control in the field of slot machine gambling

该项目调查了德国目前监管老虎机游戏的尝试，这些尝试明确旨在打击“赌博成瘾”的社会问题。其目标是从经验上重建这一过程，并分析社会控制是如何启动和在体制上实施的，受影响的参与者和公司如何对控制方法作出反应，以及可以观察到哪些执行障碍和规避行动。在分析当前商业赌博领域的变革时，该项目追求社会问题的(建构主义)社会学的视角，对收集的数据的解释部分基于内容分析，部分基于解释学方法，以及基于知识社会学的话语分析。关于赌博，该项目不仅涉及(讲德语的)社会学迄今普遍忽视的一个社会现实领域，而且希望在日益数字化的世界中为满足对适当的社会控制概念的持续需求做出贡献。

The project investigates the current attempts to regulate slot gaming in Germany, which explicitly aim at combating the social problem of “gambling addiction". The objective is to reconstruct the process empirically and to analyse how social control is initiated and institutionally implemented, how the affected players and companies react to the control approaches and which obstacles to implementation and evasive movements can be observed. In the analysis of current transformations in the field of commercial gambling, the project pursues the perspective of a (constructivist) sociology of social problems and bases its interpretation of the collected data partly on content-analytical, partly on hermeneutical methods as well as on discourse analysis based on sociology of knowledge. With regard to gambling, the project not only deals with an area of social reality that has so far been widely neglected by (German-speaking) sociology, but at the same time wants to make a contribution to satisfying the continuing need for an appropriate concept of social control in an increasingly digitalized world.