Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure write by Robert A. Stebbins. This book was released on 1992. Amateurs, Professionals, and Serious Leisure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A synthesis of Stebbins' (sociology, U. of Calgary) previous published studies of professionals and dedicated amateurs in eight specific fields of entertainment, science, and sport. Having constructed a theoretical framework for behavior in each field, he presents a general theory of leisure. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Serious Leisure
Serious Leisure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serious Leisure write by Robert A. Stebbins. This book was released on 2011-12-31. Serious Leisure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Serious Leisure Perspective
The Serious Leisure Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Serious Leisure Perspective write by Sam Elkington. This book was released on 2014-07-17. The Serious Leisure Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience. Bringing together the study of serious leisure, casual leisure and project-based leisure, it is an essential component of the Leisure Studies curriculum and an invaluable tool for exploring the significance of leisure in contemporary society. This book is the first of offer a comprehensive introduction to the Serious Leisure Perspective, from fundamental principles and key concepts to in-depth and wide-ranging case studies of serious leisure pursuits. The book introduces the history of the SLP and its position alongside other social theories that attempt to explain the nature and function of leisure. It explores important themes such as consumption, gender relations, social capital and quality of life, and delves deeply into the leisure of amateurs, hobbyists, career volunteers and occupational devotees. Every chapter includes a range of useful pedagogical features, such as review questions and group exercises, to help the student to grasp the importance of understanding leisure as a way of understanding contemporary social life and society. Combining cutting-edge theory and method with an engaging and practical interface, this is an essential text for all Leisure Studies courses and illuminating reading for any student working in Tourism, Events, Sport, Recreation, Sociology or Cultural Studies.
A Handbook of Leisure Studies
A Handbook of Leisure Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Handbook of Leisure Studies write by C. Rojek. This book was released on 2006-06-20. A Handbook of Leisure Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.
Serious Leisure and Nature
Serious Leisure and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serious Leisure and Nature write by L. Davidson. This book was released on 2011-03-01. Serious Leisure and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring how NCA unfolds in an aesthetically appealing natural environment with implications for consumption and environmental sustainability.
