Social Explanations of Lottery Play: New Evidence Based on National Survey Data

Autor:	Jens Beckert, Mark Lutter, Daria Tisch
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Adult Male Evidence-based practice Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Strain theory Social Networking Lottery Surveys and Questionnaires 0502 economics and business Social position Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050207 economics General Psychology media_common Probability Consumption (economics) Motivation Social network business.industry 05 social sciences Behavior Addictive Luck Socioeconomic Factors Gambling Income Survey data collection Female Psychology business Social psychology
Zdroj:	Journal of Gambling Studies
ISSN:	1573-3602
Popis:	This study examines the social contexts of gambling and analyzes social motivations for playing the lottery. We test three sociological approaches simultaneously: network effects, consumption theory, and strain theory. The data used (SOEP-IS, N = 5868 individuals) has several advantages beyond being a large-scale representative sample of the German population. With information on households, we can analyze social network effects while avoiding the problems of egocentric network data. Another benefit of the SOEP-IS is the panel structure. We use the panel structure to improve measurements of strain theory by using the decline in income over time as a measure for it. Our results suggest that the three theories explain different aspects of lottery play. Networks seem to have an influence on lottery play. Having another person in the household playing the lottery is positively associated with both the probability of playing (regularly) and expenditures on lottery tickets. Daydreams and the belief in good luck are positively associated with lottery play as well. Strain theory is confirmed insofar as we find that a decline in income is significantly related to expenditures but not to the probability of playing the lottery. Overall, this study suggests that people play the lottery depending on their social surroundings, their desire to participate in a world normally out of their reach, and the tensions they feel from the distance between their aspirations and their actual social position.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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