PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING AND CAPITALIST RATIONALITY

病态赌博行为是一个严重的问题，影响着大约400万美国人及其家人。现有的研究集中在确定赌博为强迫症的心理因素上，但很少有人关注一个基本问题，即最初是什么让赌博成为一种潜在的上瘾活动。这个项目将开发一项关于赌场赌博行为的人种学研究，以及康复的强迫性赌徒、非强迫性赌徒和内华达州赌场对赌场赌博行为的不同理解和管理方式。它还将借鉴相关的社会科学、理论和比较观点，将病态赌博与更广泛的背景联系起来，包括资本主义下货币的性质和功能。简而言之，该项目旨在为强迫性赌博行为提供一个解释模型。

Pathological gambling behavior is a serious problem affecting approximately 4 million Americans and their families. Existing research has focused on psychological factors that determine gambling as compulsive, but little attention has been paid to the basic question of what makes gambling a potentially addictive activity in the first place. This project will develop an ethnographic study of casino gambling behavior and the ways it is variously understood and managed by recovering compulsive gamblers, by non-compulsive gamblers, and by Nevada casinos. It will also draw on relevant social scientific theoretical and comparative perspectives to relate pathological gambling to broader contexts that include the nature and function of money under capitalism. In short, this project aims to contribute to an explanatory model of compulsive gambling behavior.