Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our TimeTransaction Publishers, 2011 M12 31 - 176 páginas 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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... fields of research. Sixteen such extensions are described, along with some additional ones that are, so to speak, waiting to be formally recognized through publication. In chapter 6 we look at the history of the Perspective, starting in ...
... fields of research. Sixteen such extensions are described, along with some additional ones that are, so to speak, waiting to be formally recognized through publication. In chapter 6 we look at the history of the Perspective, starting in ...
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... field from sociology departments. In units variously named Leisure Studies, Leisure and Recreation, Leisure and Physical Education, Parks and Leisure, and more recently, Leisure and Health Studies, the sociology of leisure has grown ...
... field from sociology departments. In units variously named Leisure Studies, Leisure and Recreation, Leisure and Physical Education, Parks and Leisure, and more recently, Leisure and Health Studies, the sociology of leisure has grown ...
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... field, open-ended inquiry and observation could, some day, suggest one or more additional forms. Briefly put the construction of scientific typologies, in principle, never results in completed intellectual edifices. Additionally the ...
... field, open-ended inquiry and observation could, some day, suggest one or more additional forms. Briefly put the construction of scientific typologies, in principle, never results in completed intellectual edifices. Additionally the ...
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... field, namely, leisure itself. A Definition of Leisure Starting with Aristotle, scholars, clergy, and journalists, among other categories of humankind, have been weighing in with their definitions of leisure. Given the scope of this ...
... field, namely, leisure itself. A Definition of Leisure Starting with Aristotle, scholars, clergy, and journalists, among other categories of humankind, have been weighing in with their definitions of leisure. Given the scope of this ...
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... fields of research. These sets of concepts are, in turn, anchored in broader social contexts, which are the subject of chapter 4. As for serious leisure, it is constituted of three types: The Serious Leisure Perspective 5.
... fields of research. These sets of concepts are, in turn, anchored in broader social contexts, which are the subject of chapter 4. As for serious leisure, it is constituted of three types: The Serious Leisure Perspective 5.
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Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 37 |
Chapter 4 | 53 |
Chapter 5 | 77 |
Chapter 6 | 101 |
Chapter 7 | 119 |
References | 137 |
Index | 149 |
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