Overview
- Provides a critical engagement with the common sense view of leisure
- Conceptualises the “popular image” of leisure as a kind of stereotype, while highlighting its inadequacies
- Reviews the modern scientific understanding of the nature of leisure, as based on theory and research
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Leisure’s modern legacy is both profound and immense, as a product of approximately 45 years of steady research, application and theory development. The common sense view of free-time activities, therefore, can and should be challenged. Stebbins provides this confrontation by tackling four particular themes: that gatekeepers within the institutions of higher education and funding agencies for research often fail to attach adequate resources to the idea of leisure; that the general population are guided by certain common sense definitions and largely unaware of how an informed view of free time could be beneficial; that practitioners within certain fields continue to refuse to engage with the idea of leisure despite its benefitfor their clients; and that the weak reception of the science of leisure within mainstream social sciences suggests a similarly warped understanding of how people use their free time.
Leisure’s Legacy will be of interest to scholars of Leisure Studies and all those wishing to learn more about the vital importance of leisure in modern Western society.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. Stebbins has authored or edited over 50 books and monographs as well as over 230 articles and chapters in several areas of social science. Stebbins is Elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the World Leisure Academy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leisure’s Legacy
Book Subtitle: Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time
Authors: Robert A. Stebbins
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59794-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59793-5Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86703-8Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59794-2Published: 17 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 221
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory