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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... role. The ten rewards presented below emerged in the course of various exploratory studies of amateurs, hobbyists, and career volunteers. As the following list shows, the rewards of serious leisure are, numerically speaking ...
... role. The ten rewards presented below emerged in the course of various exploratory studies of amateurs, hobbyists, and career volunteers. As the following list shows, the rewards of serious leisure are, numerically speaking ...
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... role in life. And since they can only emerge from positive emotional states, obsessive and compulsive activities can never become central life interests. Finally, I have argued over the years that amateurs, and sometimes even the ...
... role in life. And since they can only emerge from positive emotional states, obsessive and compulsive activities can never become central life interests. Finally, I have argued over the years that amateurs, and sometimes even the ...
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... role, leisure roles included, can be, at times, a powerful motive to act there.5 And, in attempting to counter Parker's (1996, pp. 327328) criticism of my use of the idea of career in the serious leisure perspective, note that I am ...
... role, leisure roles included, can be, at times, a powerful motive to act there.5 And, in attempting to counter Parker's (1996, pp. 327328) criticism of my use of the idea of career in the serious leisure perspective, note that I am ...
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Contents
The Serious Leisure Perspective | |
Synthesizing the Forms | |
Extending the Perspective | |
History of the Perspective | |
References | |
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