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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... type of pursuit, wherein participants in it mentally or physically (often both) think or do something, motivated by the hope of achieving a desired end. Life is filled with activities, both pleasant and Preface to the Paperback Edition.
... type of pursuit, wherein participants in it mentally or physically (often both) think or do something, motivated by the hope of achieving a desired end. Life is filled with activities, both pleasant and Preface to the Paperback Edition.
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... types and subtypes. More precisely the serious leisure perspective offers a classification and explanation of all leisure activity and experience, as these two are framed in the social psychological, social, cultural, and historical ...
... types and subtypes. More precisely the serious leisure perspective offers a classification and explanation of all leisure activity and experience, as these two are framed in the social psychological, social, cultural, and historical ...
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... types and subtypes has also emerged over the years. That the Perspective (wherever Perspective appears as shorthand for serious leisure perspective, to avoid confusion, the first letter will be capitalized) takes its name from the first ...
... types and subtypes has also emerged over the years. That the Perspective (wherever Perspective appears as shorthand for serious leisure perspective, to avoid confusion, the first letter will be capitalized) takes its name from the first ...
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... types of serious leisure, this has turned out to be erroneous. For I have observed, in recent years, a third kind of leisure, namely, projectbased leisure. It is a shortterm, reasonably complicated, oneoff or occasional, though ...
... types of serious leisure, this has turned out to be erroneous. For I have observed, in recent years, a third kind of leisure, namely, projectbased leisure. It is a shortterm, reasonably complicated, oneoff or occasional, though ...
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... types of entertainment magicians and the magic dealers and booking agents who inhabit their social world (Stebbins, 1993a). And Wilson (1995) describes a similar, “symbiotic” relationship between British marathon runners and the media ...
... types of entertainment magicians and the magic dealers and booking agents who inhabit their social world (Stebbins, 1993a). And Wilson (1995) describes a similar, “symbiotic” relationship between British marathon runners and the media ...
Contents
The Serious Leisure Perspective | |
Synthesizing the Forms | |
Extending the Perspective | |
History of the Perspective | |
References | |
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