Sport and Leisure in Contemporary Society
Author | : Stanley Robert Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stanley Robert Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth Roberts |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 184593069X |
In 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.
Author | : Daniel D. McLean |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Leisure |
ISBN | : 9780763707569 |
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Author | : Daniel McLean |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Publishers |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1449689574 |
With a new full-color design with perforated worksheets, the Tenth Edition of Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It addresses contemporary issues facing the recreation and leisure profession and focuses on challenges and opportunities that impact the profession now as well as years from now. Extensive research into emerging trends helps support the text and provide insights into the future. Focusing on the ten different types of organizations --ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors -- this classic text text is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry. New to the Tenth Edition: - Discusses how specific trends, such as dramatic shifts in population make-up, the impact of technology, and marketing affect leisure-service systems and the recreation and park professions. - Focus on the role of parks and recreation on the health and wellness of our communities as well as means to combat the obesity epidemic in North America. - Includes new case studies which allow students to apply knowledge of technology in leisure, identify the value and benefits of play, and recognize the changing family structures of our modern society.
Author | : D. Stanley Eitzen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : 9780312119850 |
Author | : A. J. Veal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-08-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351972022 |
The idea of a ‘leisure society’ was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely. The leisure society has clearly not been realised. On the contrary: contemporary industrial societies seem to be characterised by a shortage of time, experienced as ‘time squeeze’ and stress. The leisure society idea can be seen as the modern version of the age-old dream of a ‘life of ease and plenty’. This analytically and empirically rich book traces the idea in history, through biblical, classical Greek, medieval and nineteenth century utopian writings and into twentieth century concerns with dystopia and the impact of rapid technological change. The ‘leisure society’ concept turns out to have been an elusive and short-lived phenomenon. For a variety of reasons, the trend towards shorter working hours ran out of steam in the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, while leisure scholars have deserted the topic, a diverse range of activists, including environmentalists, economists and feminists, continue to make the case for reducing working hours. Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? concludes that the on-going ‘struggle for time’ should be supported, for the sake of human health and well-being and for the sake of the planet. This is a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of leisure studies, cultural studies, history, economics, sociology and political science.
Author | : Kenneth Roberts |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Longman |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Hurd |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021-08-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1284205037 |
Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. The Twelfth Edition focuses on the challenges and opportunities impacting the profession—including dramatic demographic changes, new technologies, and innovations in marketing—through an array of pedagogical features, including engaging sidebars and case studies addressing contemporary issues. Focusing on ten different types of organizations—ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors—the Twelfth Edition is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry
Author | : Karl Spracklen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1137329092 |
The way we organise our free time can reveal a great deal about our identities and ideology. This book explores what our sports and leisure choices can tell us about the society in which we live. Comprehensive, cutting edge and packed with global examples it covers all the essentials for students of sports and leisure sociology.
Author | : Katherine Dashper |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2016-01-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1317751396 |
Despite the mythology of sport bringing people together and encouraging everyone to work collectively to success, modern sport remains a site of exclusionary practices that operate on a number of levels. Although sports participation is, in some cases at least, becoming more open and meritocratic, at the management level it remains very homogenous; dominated by western, white, middle-aged, able-bodied men. This has implications both for how sport develops and how it is experienced by different participant groups, across all levels. Critical studies of sport have revealed that, rather than being a passive mechanism and merely reflecting inequality, sport, via social agents’ interactions with sporting spaces, is actively involved in producing, reproducing, sustaining and indeed, resisting, various manifestations of inequality. The experiences of marginalised groups can act as a resource for explaining contemporary political struggles over what sport means, how it should be played (and by whom), and its place within wider society. Central to this collection is the argument that the dynamics of cultural identities are contextually contingent; influenced heavily by time and place and the extent to which they are embedded in the culture of their geographic location. They also come to function differently within certain sites and institutions; be it in one’s everyday routine or leisure pursuits, such as sport. Among the themes and issues explored by the contributors to this volume are: social inclusion and exclusion in relation to class, ‘race’ and ethnicity, gender and sexuality; social identities and authenticity; social policy, deviance and fandom. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.