Leisure in Contemporary SocietyIn Western societies, leisure has been a major force in changing people's lives. The containment of working time and the rise in spending power have been long-term trends and are likely to continue over the next decades. While growth of leisure may not have eradicated differences by social class, gender or age, it has transformed how these differences are expressed, challenged or modified. In parallel, leisure studies has itself developed significantly as an academic discipline. This second edition is a complete rewrite of the first edition published in 1999. It is an introductory undergraduate text on leisure. It has a sociological perspective and discusses recent debates and research on topics such as post-modernity, consumer cultures and lifestyles. |
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... parents. Members of different households who live side by side can nurture entirely different leisure interests. DeLisle (2004) has argued that the tolerance that followed the Reformation in Roman Catholic Europe was important ...
... parents. Members of different households who live side by side can nurture entirely different leisure interests. DeLisle (2004) has argued that the tolerance that followed the Reformation in Roman Catholic Europe was important ...
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... parents or stu- dents there would be this laughable inflation of subjects?' Well, the students and parents who, since 1998 (when student fees were reintroduced in the UK), have been paying for degrees in these subjects have answered ...
... parents or stu- dents there would be this laughable inflation of subjects?' Well, the students and parents who, since 1998 (when student fees were reintroduced in the UK), have been paying for degrees in these subjects have answered ...
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... parental leave, sabbaticals for re-education and training and ceilings on the hours that they can be expected to work in order to be considered serious candidates for promotion. During the 20th century governments came to be regarded as ...
... parental leave, sabbaticals for re-education and training and ceilings on the hours that they can be expected to work in order to be considered serious candidates for promotion. During the 20th century governments came to be regarded as ...
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... parents' homes prior to marrying or cohabiting and of rising rates of divorce and separation. A net result is that the growth in average household spending lagged behind the rate of growth in spending by the entire population and in the ...
... parents' homes prior to marrying or cohabiting and of rising rates of divorce and separation. A net result is that the growth in average household spending lagged behind the rate of growth in spending by the entire population and in the ...
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Contents
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2 The Growth of Leisure | 23 |
3 Work and Leisure | 55 |
4 Gender | 98 |
5 The Life Course | 123 |
6 Lifestyles and Identities | 163 |
7 Consumption and Consumerism | 183 |
8 The Transformation of Leisure? | 211 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Index | 251 |
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