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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... first occurred in 1990-1991, which was then published in Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure (Stebbins, 1992a). This, the third stocktaking, has been revealing, in that approximately one and one-half times as much was published ...
... first occurred in 1990-1991, which was then published in Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure (Stebbins, 1992a). This, the third stocktaking, has been revealing, in that approximately one and one-half times as much was published ...
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... first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. Chapter 7 centers on the future and importance of the serious leisure perspective, its place in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge ...
... first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. Chapter 7 centers on the future and importance of the serious leisure perspective, its place in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge ...
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... first century, a trivial matter. The study of serious leisure roots, in part, in the failure of modern sociologists to view leisure as a distinctive aspect of society and social life. In 1974, I could find no sociological definition of ...
... first century, a trivial matter. The study of serious leisure roots, in part, in the failure of modern sociologists to view leisure as a distinctive aspect of society and social life. In 1974, I could find no sociological definition of ...
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... first should have its own website and that she would be willing to help me develop it. That possibility galvanized me into action: the website should be about the entire Perspective, not only about its namesake. But, to have an ...
... first should have its own website and that she would be willing to help me develop it. That possibility galvanized me into action: the website should be about the entire Perspective, not only about its namesake. But, to have an ...
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... first letter will be capitalized) takes its name from the first of these should, in no way, suggest that Iregard it, in some abstract sense, as the most important or superior of the three. I hope the following pages will demonstrate the ...
... first letter will be capitalized) takes its name from the first of these should, in no way, suggest that Iregard it, in some abstract sense, as the most important or superior of the three. I hope the following pages will demonstrate the ...
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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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