Many social scientists believe the future will offer significantly fewer opportunities for most adults to gain and maintain a job in way they are used doing today. A smaller number of jobs substantially reduced work hours store many employees postindustrial society. Whether or not their ever provided such things, increasingly be searching world leisure ways express abilities, fulfill potential, identify themselves as unique human beings. Serious is main route open people with these goals....

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 In this perspective, constitutes systematic pursuit an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer sufficiently substantial interesting in nature requiring special skills,...

A handful of observers have suggested that volunteering can be defined and described as a leisure activity. Extending this reasoning, it is argued many kinds volunteering, because they foster the acquisition expression combination special skills, knowledge, experience, looked on serious leisure. The perspective not only defines explains volunteers self-interested but also opens way to more comprehensive theoretical statement than was heretofore available. In artick, author explores...

(1970). Career: The Subjective Approach. Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 32-49.

Abstract Project‐based leisure is a short‐term, moderately complicated, one‐shotFootnote1 or occasional though infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time. It requires considerable planning, effort and sometimes skill knowledge, but for all that neither serious nor intended to develop into such. Nothing has been written about project‐based per se, even it appears be widely pursued wherever people have sufficient time resources it. The object here present conceptual framework...

Journal Article On Misunderstanding the Concept of Commitment: A Theoretical Clarification Get access Robert A. Stebbins Memorial University Newfoundland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 48, Issue 4, June 1970, Pages 526–529, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/48.4.526 Published: 01 1970

Organized sport as we know it is not an expression of social consensus or continuing progess toward a better world, nor homogenous, cohesive entity. This book invites us to consider the hidden face Canadian sport.

The serious leisure perspective is introduced and its relationship to library information science (LIS) set out. twofold: the offers a distinctive approach both research practice in this discipline. That is, bridges critical gap that has separated fields of LIS studies, manifested as scant concern with central interest other. This bridged by providing first conceptual framework for understanding activities, which can help guide researchers practitioners working on retrieval dissemination...

A range of thinkers in philosophy, religion, and the social sciences have argued that thanks to science, technology, organization society, human condition has improved will continue do so. People are becoming progressively happier enjoying an ever-improving quality life, they say, mostly because putting their skills reason work. The Idea Leisure is based on assumption leisure also fits into order, it provides a singular vector by which measure progress, even though rarely mentioned writings...

Activities such as gardening are fast becoming acknowledged a much desired health management strategy in later life. However, few studies have examined serious leisure pursuit. The aim of this study was to apply the concept context by older adults Australia. Casual, participant and devotee gardeners were compared with respect relative importance characteristics leisure, using self-administered questionnaires (n = 514). Findings indicated that varied significantly across three groups. most...

Abstract This article looks at the complex relationship between serious leisure and work, with an eye to examining its implications for social life practice. First, perspective (a theoretic framework that synthesizes three main forms: serious, casual, project‐based leisure) is described. Then, occupational devotion examined. It consists of a strong, positive attachment form self‐enhancing where sense achievement high core activity (set basic tasks) endowed such intense appeal line this work...

Plusieurs sociologues et psychologues sociaux estiment que le concept definition de la situation peut diffkilement se preter a une analyse empirique. Cette attitude considerablement reduit nombre des tentatives serieuses pour operationaliser processus par lequel les hommes conferent significations l'ensemble situations dans lesquelles ils agissent leur vie quotidienne. On construit ici plusieurs etapes but concretiser l'etude situation. presente, en premier lieu, quelques ajoutes theorie...