Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our TimeRobert A. Stebbins Serious 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, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls serious leisure.In this perspective, serious leisure constitutes systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently substantial and interesting in nature and requiring special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast a relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure is a short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional creative undertaking carried out in free time. Stebbins sets out the basic concepts and propositions that make up the three forms, focusing on their essential elements. He takes stock of the serious leisure literature as well as that for casual and project-based leisure.Stebbins sees serious leisure realized by way of a set of foundational concepts--organization, community, history, lifestyle, and culture--and several of their component areas. He reviews the history and background of the concept of serious leisure and then adds historical commentary on, first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. 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.Together with its original insights, Serious Leisure offers a single, handy, coherent, comprehensive resource. It will be of interest to sociologists, labor studies specialists, and economists. |
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... knowledge, and experience Casual leisure: immediately, intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived pleasurable core activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure: short-term, reasonably ...
... knowledge, and experience Casual leisure: immediately, intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived pleasurable core activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure: short-term, reasonably ...
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... knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. My hope in writing this book is that many more people than presently around will wake up to the fact that leisure, even if some of it is trivial, is not, as a ...
... knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. My hope in writing this book is that many more people than presently around will wake up to the fact that leisure, even if some of it is trivial, is not, as a ...
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A Perspective for Our Time Robert A. Stebbins. a vibrant branch of knowledge. So it is not really that branch of the discipline which is weak, rather weakness lies within the discipline itself. It is weak because it is ignoring a side of ...
A Perspective for Our Time Robert A. Stebbins. a vibrant branch of knowledge. So it is not really that branch of the discipline which is weak, rather weakness lies within the discipline itself. It is weak because it is ignoring a side of ...
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Contents
The Serious Leisure Perspective | |
Recent Research on Serious Leisure | |
The Basics | |
Synthesizing the Forms | |
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