Renowned scholar Max Weber identifies the following types of social action: traditional, value-rational, affektivnoe, dedicated management, the latter, he said, almost in real life is not found. True, he spoke on the methods of understanding of social action as if they were reducible to the need to construct these rational action possible in the case of purifying real action from affektivnyh, traditional values or colors. In this case, such constructions to a formal explanation from the viewpoint of logic, are treated equally by various researchers and, ultimately, easier to predict. Economists have adopted and processed Weber's ideas on the identification of rational people's daily lives. For example, G. Becker in the article "Economic analysis and the foundations of human behaviour" as a base for the rationalization of human behaviour suggests "maximize wealth or utility function", arguing that it will help explain any possible human behaviour - and even romantic. In other words, modern man - a man economic, and therefore need to explain economic concepts.
In spite of everything, still in society, not all can be described only terms of economy - for example, as an economist to explain the concept of "luck", "luck", or "risk". How are these phenomena can be explained from the perspective of rationalization model, we are trying to trace the example of the game in the casino.
What is the problem
A long time, the scope of gambling was only part of other phenomena in society: the state lotteries of new treasury, speculative techniques, business, forced insurance and the like - you can read about it in the exploration and R. G. Brennerov "Gambling and Speculation: A Theore, a History and a Future of Some Human Decisions "the 1990 edition. In modern society, gambling is a separate sphere - the sphere of leisure and gaming on the stock exchange has become part of high-risk business.
In the casino (and other gambling) played not only in the West, but also in the East. The success of gambling have two mutually exclusive of each other components of excitement - the likelihood of abstract theory and emotion, adrenaline, which is experiencing any person employed gambling. Despite the cultural universality of the casino, attitudes in different societies is markedly different from each other.
Exploring the problem
The very notion of gambling, including casinos - a complex sociocultural phenomenon, and it can be seen from the perspective of various humanitarian disciplines: philosophy, culture, sociology, psychology, economics. Specifics of the study explains features of the facility. With positions sociologist casino - a complex sociocultural education with its special ingredients (its norms, attitudes, values, especially motivating) and ways of interaction with the public culture. Sociologist will be able to examine such questions as, for example, the level of prestige gambling as a leisure in a logical rationalization of the cost to the game (gains and losses) with salaries in everyday life, as well as ways of obtaining pleasure in gambling.
Game casino in shaping certain actors. In this article we decided to examine the activities of players, in particular the way in which they subjectively perceive the game, how the casino world for them becomes a reality. Modalities of this analysis we have a description of cultural interactions and subcultural elements that define their identity and activities in which they are engaged. Game, we plan to review at two levels: as a game situation, where rates are important, with subsequent losses or winnings, and as a sociocultural space where, along with cash rates are also other social motives.