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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Page vii
... young people in north-west England 142 5.6. Young people and sport 143 Boxes 1.1. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and 'flow' 7 1.2 Serious leisure Tables vii.
... young people in north-west England 142 5.6. Young people and sport 143 Boxes 1.1. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi and 'flow' 7 1.2 Serious leisure Tables vii.
Page xi
... people have become more mobile ( geographically ) than in the past and where , in some respects , lifestyles have become ... young people's leisure is now balanced by grow- ing attention to leisure in later life ( an example of research ...
... people have become more mobile ( geographically ) than in the past and where , in some respects , lifestyles have become ... young people's leisure is now balanced by grow- ing attention to leisure in later life ( an example of research ...
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... people had little choice but to share the ways of life of the groups in which they lived, whereas with modern leisure indi- viduals have greater scope to make their own lifestyle choices. Young ... people's uses of their 'own time'. It 4 ...
... people had little choice but to share the ways of life of the groups in which they lived, whereas with modern leisure indi- viduals have greater scope to make their own lifestyle choices. Young ... people's uses of their 'own time'. It 4 ...
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... young people had been 'normalized' (see Chapter 5, p. 143). Roughly a third of young people were then regular users of illegal drugs at some stage in their lives and most others were occasional or one-off users (Parker et al., 2002) ...
... young people had been 'normalized' (see Chapter 5, p. 143). Roughly a third of young people were then regular users of illegal drugs at some stage in their lives and most others were occasional or one-off users (Parker et al., 2002) ...
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... people and relatively fewer in the younger age groups, and more single-person households as a result of young people tending to live singly on first leaving their parents' homes prior to marrying or cohabiting and of rising rates of ...
... people and relatively fewer in the younger age groups, and more single-person households as a result of young people tending to live singly on first leaving their parents' homes prior to marrying or cohabiting and of rising rates of ...
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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Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism: A Practical Guide Anthony James Veal No preview available - 2006 |