Leisure Activities in Context
Title | Leisure Activities in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Stebbins |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2016-12-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1412863767 |
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal, or geographical), or as Robert A. Stebbins conceptualizes it, at levels of society. Here Stebbins explores leisure studies at society’s micro, meso, and macro levels. He considers all three as they manifest themselves in the everyday pursuit of leisure, while focusing on the heretofore neglected middle, which he calls the meso side of life. Stebbins not only draws these perspectives together, but does something no one else has: he focuses on the big picture of leisure. Leisure Activities in Context examines the entire micro-macro/agency-structure dimension, using theory and research from leisure studies and the sociology of leisure as the vehicles to accomplish this. This book will be a useful theoretical sourcebook on the study of leisure because it provides a blueprint of issues that scholars and students can use to draw deeper meaning from their own studies, and a framework for future research.
Leisure Activities in Context
Title | Leisure Activities in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Stebbins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2017-08-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138511644 |
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal, or geographical), or as Robert A. Stebbins conceptualizes it, at levels of society. Here Stebbins explores leisure studies at society's micro, meso, and macro levels. He considers all three as they manifest themselves in the everyday pursuit of leisure, while focusing on the heretofore neglected middle, which he calls the meso side of life. Stebbins not only draws these perspectives together, but does something no one else has: he focuses on the big picture of leisure. Leisure Activities in Context examines the entire micro-macro/agency-structure dimension, using theory and research from leisure studies and the sociology of leisure as the vehicles to accomplish this. This book will be a useful theoretical sourcebook on the study of leisure because it provides a blueprint of issues that scholars and students can use to draw deeper meaning from their own studies, and a framework for future research.
Leisure Activities in Context
Title | Leisure Activities in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Stebbins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2017-07-12 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1351508954 |
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal, or geographical), or as Robert A. Stebbins conceptualizes it, at levels of society. Here Stebbins explores leisure studies at society's micro, meso, and macro levels. He considers all three as they manifest themselves in the everyday pursuit of leisure, while focusing on the heretofore neglected middle, which he calls the meso side of life. Stebbins not only draws these perspectives together, but does something no one else has: he focuses on the big picture of leisure. Leisure Activities in Context examines the entire micro-macro/agency-structure dimension, using theory and research from leisure studies and the sociology of leisure as the vehicles to accomplish this. This book will be a useful theoretical sourcebook on the study of leisure because it provides a blueprint of issues that scholars and students can use to draw deeper meaning from their own studies, and a framework for future research.
Leisure Activities in the Outdoors
Title | Leisure Activities in the Outdoors PDF eBook |
Author | Mandi Baker |
Publisher | CABI |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-10-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1789248205 |
The benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation). These benefits include the development of: health and wellbeing; social skills; leadership and facilitation skills; personal, emotional and reflective abilities; confidence and identity creation. Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, developing and challenging. The authors in this collection challenge dominant discourses of outdoor leisure through their selection of outdoor activities, theoretical approaches and modes of representation. All offer fresh insights and thinking into how leisure in the outdoors can be understood. The book covers a range of outdoor conceptualisations that challenge the reader to think deeply and broadly about the common threads which bind the broad field of outdoor leisure together. The experiences explored in this book range from suburban outdoors to wild places, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to Nordic skiing, and encompass a broad spectrum of people.
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
Title | Organized Activities As Contexts of Development PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph L. Mahoney |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 565 |
Release | 2005-03-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135628130 |
The after-school activity context has grown in importance over the past 30yrs as major demographic change (i.e.dual-career families & latchkey children) has swept the country. This bk looks at the influences of after-school activities on child & adol.dev
The Story of Leisure
Title | The Story of Leisure PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Sanford Shivers |
Publisher | Human Kinetics Publishers |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN |
Not only is The Story of Leisure an outstanding textbook; it's also an enjoyable read for recreational specialists, sport historians, and sport sociologists.
Community-based Rehabilitation
Title | Community-based Rehabilitation PDF eBook |
Author | World Health Organization |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9789241548052 |
Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.