Date of Publication

12-1-2025

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Subject Categories

Sociology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Behavioral Sciences

Thesis Advisor

Marlon de Luna Era

Defense Panel Chair

Jerome V. Cleofas

Defense Panel Member

Rodmar John N. Eda

Abstract (English)

This study investigates how gambling, as an institution, operates as a socially stratified institution in Philippine society. As such, it mirrors and reproduces the current class divisions, particularly in the urban context of Metro Manila, wherein a wide range of socioeconomic classes thrive. This study is sociologically anchored on Max Weber’s multidimensional model of social stratification. It looked at how people across the tiers of low-end, mid-level, and high-prestige gambling experience negotiated their gambling experience based on their class positions. A qualitative exploratory research design was followed, wherein 14 in-depth interviews were conducted by the researchers with players who lived in Metro Manila’s various areas. These participants represented different occupations, income brackets, and motives for engaging in gambling. The findings have shown a deep connection to social hierarchies in everyday life in the metro: low-end gambling tends to be communally intimate but is subject to moral lapses; the mid-level group has shown an ambiguous position where access is broad but experiences and realities are varied, subject to their social positions and realities; while high-prestige has remained dominant in exclusivity and wealth in all gambling forms, serving as a spectacle of privilege and aspiration. Meanwhile, across these tiers, the participants reported that they have been influenced by peers, media, and individualized conditions that made gambling normalized as recreation and coping. In the end, the study concludes that gambling is not just a vice or entertainment but an institution that reinforces and reflects social inequality embedding itself in the taken-for-granted social class system.

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Abstract (Filipino)

Iniimbestigahan ng papel na ito ang pagsusugal bilang isang panlipunang institusyong stratified sa lipunang Pilipinas. Sinasalamin at bumubunga ang panunugal ng mga kasalukuyang klasipikasyon ayon sa klase, partikular na sa lungsod ng Metro Manila, kung saan malawak ang ang pagkakaiba sa sosyoekonomikong kalagayan. Nakaangkla ang papel sa sosyolohiya ni Max Weber ng multidimensional model of social stratification. Hinimay nito ang mga karanasan at pananaw ng mga taong nanunugal sa low-end, mid-level, at high-prestige na mga klasipikasyon base sa kanilang mga panlipunang posisyon. Ang kwalitatibong, eksploratibong pananaliksik ay sinundan ang 14 na manunugal na nakapanayam sa Metro Manila. Nirerepresenta ng mga lumahok ang iba’t ibang okupasyon, kita, at motibasyon sa paglalaro. Lumabas sa aral na malalim ang koneksyon ng mga panlipunang hirarkiya sakanilang pang araw-araw na karanasan: sa low-end, mas malapit ang loob nito sa komunidad pero mas napasailalim sa moral na pag-aalinlangan; sa mid-level, iba’t iba ang karanasan sapagkat ito ang may pinakamadaling akses ngunit nagkakaiba ang karanasan base sa kanilang panlipunang posisyon; at sa high-prestige, nananatili itong lumalamang bilang pribilehiyo at aspirasyon kumpara sa ibang uri ng sugal sapagkat nauugnay ito sa pagiging eksklusibo at mayaman. Samantala, lumabas na lahat ng klasipikasyon ay naimpluwensyahan ng mga taong malapit sakanila, media, at pansariling katayuan na nagawang normal ang pagsugal bilang libangan at diskarte. Bunga ng saliksik na ito na ang pagsugal ay hindi lamang bisyo o libangan kundi isang institusyon na pinapalaganap at sumasalamin sa hindi pagkakapantay-pantay ng mga tao.

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Language

English

Format

Electronic

Keywords

Gambling--Philippines--Metro Manila; Social stratification--Philippines--Metro Manila

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12-1-2025

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