Leisure Lifestyles: Organizing Everyday Life for Fun and Fulfillment

This book explores how to turn the study of serious and casual leisure into a useful concept for guiding research, revolutionizing the idea of leisure lifestyle and enriching our understanding of what it means.

Format: Hardback
Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2021
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Acknowledging the challenge of injecting order into the concept of leisure lifestyles, this book, written by a prominent figure in the field of leisure, explores how to transform the study of both serious and casual leisure into a valuable concept for guiding research.

By recognizing the temporal and spatial dimensions of leisure lifestyles, Stebbins delves into distinct leisure lifestyles that revolve around specific free-time activities. These include serious pursuits, such as training, practice, rehearsal, gathering information, and casual activities like bingo, lunches with colleagues, and outings with small walking groups. Through meticulous analysis, Stebbins highlights the nuances of each lifestyle and demonstrates how serious activities are structured along the lines of the social world in which they are embedded. This groundbreaking book revolutionizes the notion of leisure lifestyle, transforming it into a practical concept for guiding research while also enriching our understanding of what it truly means.

In meeting the critical challenge of the field, this book emerges as a refreshing and valuable addition to the existing literature on leisure. Authored by a highly respected and established scholar, it offers insightful perspectives and contributes to the ongoing discourse on this fascinating subject.

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 161 x 239 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781801176019