Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Issues in the study of gambling -- 1 Gambling as a sociological problem -- 2 Gambling as a social problem -- 3 The research strategy -- 4 Tests of hypotheses about patterns of gambling -- 5 The social distribution of gambling -- Part 2 Social variations in gambling activity -- Introduction -- Glossary -- 6 Football pools -- 7 Betting -- 8 Gaming -- 9 Club bingo -- 10 Gaming machines -- 11 All gambling -- 12 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Construction and definition of social indicators -- Appendix 2 Diagrams 1-15 -- Appendix 3 The betting office industry in Glamorgan, 1961-7 -- Notes -- Index.