Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time

摘要: "Serious Leisure" offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state sociology leisure. Defining differentiating way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories serious, casual, project-based leisure that he further separates variety types subtypes. Together they comprise what calls "serious leisure." In this perspective, serious constitutes systematic pursuit an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer sufficiently substantial interesting in nature requiring special skills, knowledge, experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, little no training to enjoy it. Project-based short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional creative undertaking carried out time. sets basic concepts propositions make up three forms, focusing on essential elements. He takes stock literature as well for casual sees leisure" realized set foundational - organization, community, history, lifestyle, culture several component areas. reviews history background concept then adds historical commentary on, first, and, then, Finally, examines future importance perspective globalizing world, some its critical links with other fields knowledge practice, notably nonprofit sector preventive medicine. original insights, single, handy, coherent, resource. It will be interest sociologists, labor studies specialists, economists.