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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... core activity that they have had the option to accept or reject on their own terms. A key element in the leisure conception of volunteering is the felt absence of moral coercion to do the volunteer activity, an element that, in ...
... core activity that they have had the option to accept or reject on their own terms. A key element in the leisure conception of volunteering is the felt absence of moral coercion to do the volunteer activity, an element that, in ...
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... activity capable of producing flow does so in terms unique to it. And it follows that each of these activities must be carefully studied to discover the properties of their core that contributes to the distinctive flow experience it ...
... activity capable of producing flow does so in terms unique to it. And it follows that each of these activities must be carefully studied to discover the properties of their core that contributes to the distinctive flow experience it ...
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... core amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity can become for some participants some of the time significantly uncontrollable. This is because it engenders in its practitioners the desire to engage in the activity beyond the time or the ...
... core amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity can become for some participants some of the time significantly uncontrollable. This is because it engenders in its practitioners the desire to engage in the activity beyond the time or the ...
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Contents
The Serious Leisure Perspective | |
Synthesizing the Forms | |
Extending the Perspective | |
History of the Perspective | |
References | |
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