Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our TimeSerious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert A. Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious (skilled), casual (unskilled), and project-based (short-term) leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls the â serious leisure perspective.â Stebbins sets out the basic concepts that make up the three leisure forms, focusing on their essential elements. Stebbins sees â serious leisureâ realized by way of a set of foundational conceptsâ organization, community, history, lifestyle, and culture. He reviews the history and background of the concept of serious leisure and follows up with historical commentary. Finally, he examines the future and the importance of the serious leisure perspective in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. Serious Leisure is a coherent and comprehensive resource setting out the main parameters of what is now widely recognized as an interdisciplinary research area. It will be of interest to sociologists, labor studies specialists, and economists. |
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... world of leisure. That is, so far as I can tell at present, all leisure (at least in Western society) can be ... social psychological, social, cultural, and historical contexts in which the activity and experience take place. On the way ...
... world of leisure. That is, so far as I can tell at present, all leisure (at least in Western society) can be ... social psychological, social, cultural, and historical contexts in which the activity and experience take place. On the way ...
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... world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and ... social life. In 1974, I could find no sociological definition of amateur or ... social life. For example one hunts in vain for a session on leisure at a typical ...
... world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and ... social life. In 1974, I could find no sociological definition of amateur or ... social life. For example one hunts in vain for a session on leisure at a typical ...
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... social class, religion, nationality), and their larger communities and ... world of leisure. That is, so far as I can tell at present, all leisure (at ... world, how it relates to health and wellbeing as well as its place is in the ...
... social class, religion, nationality), and their larger communities and ... world of leisure. That is, so far as I can tell at present, all leisure (at ... world, how it relates to health and wellbeing as well as its place is in the ...
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... social world of these amateurs the “strangers” (Unruh, 1979) are a highly important group consisting, in the main, of national fishing organizations, tournament promoters, and manufacturers and distributors of sporting goods and ...
... social world of these amateurs the “strangers” (Unruh, 1979) are a highly important group consisting, in the main, of national fishing organizations, tournament promoters, and manufacturers and distributors of sporting goods and ...
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... social world of the participants is the organizational milieu in which the associated ethos—at bottom a cultural formation—is expressed (as attitudes, beliefs, values) or realized (as practices, goals). Unruh (1980, p. 277) developed ...
... social world of the participants is the organizational milieu in which the associated ethos—at bottom a cultural formation—is expressed (as attitudes, beliefs, values) or realized (as practices, goals). Unruh (1980, p. 277) developed ...
Contents
The Serious Leisure Perspective | |
Synthesizing the Forms | |
Extending the Perspective | |
History of the Perspective | |
References | |
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