Leisure’s Legacy

Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time

Robert A. Stebbins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 221 Seiten

2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-86703-8 (ISBN)

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This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.
Leisure's modern legacy is both profound and immense, as a product of approximately 45 years of steady research, application and theory development. The common sense view of free-time activities, therefore, can and should be challenged. Stebbins provides this confrontation by tackling four particular themes: that gatekeepers within the institutions of higher education and funding agencies for research often fail to attach adequate resources to the idea of leisure; that the general population are guided by certain common sense definitions and largely unaware of how an informed view of free time could be beneficial; that practitioners within certain fields continue to refuse to engage with the idea of leisure despite its benefitfor their clients; and that the weak reception of the science of leisure within mainstream social sciences suggests a similarly warped understanding of how people use their free time.
Leisure's Legacy will be of interest to scholars of Leisure Studies and all those wishing to learn more about the vital importance of leisure in modern Western society.

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. Stebbins has authored or edited over 50 books and monographs as well as over 230 articles and chapters in several areas of social science. Stebbins is Elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the World Leisure Academy.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Nature of Leisure.- 3. Leisure's Common Sense Images.- 4. The History of Today's Legacy.- 5. Leisure's Modern Complexity: Types of Leisure.- 6. What Do We Get from Leisure: Positive Rewards?.- 7. What Do We Get from Leisure: Negative Costs?.- 8. Leisure in the Community: Contributions.- 9. Leisure in the Community: Negative Effects.- 10. Personal Development through Leisure.- 11. Devotee Work as Leisure.- 12. Leisure Lifestyle.- 13. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2018
Reihe/Serie	Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Zusatzinfo	IX, 221 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	casual leisure • Common Sense View of Free Time • Community • eudaemonia • Hobbyists • intentionality • lifestyle • project-based leisure • serious leisure • volunteers
ISBN-10	3-319-86703-2 / 3319867032
ISBN-13	978-3-319-86703-8 / 9783319867038
Zustand	Neuware