What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of ′over-work′? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity?
This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today.
The book:
• situates the student in the field
• provides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches to leisure
• explores the influence of class, race, gender, ethnicity, disability and age
• discusses to role of the sate
• examines leisure in the context of changing work relationships
• locates leisure in the debate around globalization
In short, this is an indispensable, one-stop guide to understanding leisure.
€79.99
विषयसूची
What is the Leisure Experience?Socio-Economic and Cultural Approaches to Leisure
Participation and Constraint – Class and Gender
Participation and Constraint – Ethnicity, Disability and Age
The Emergence of an Institutional Framework for Leisure
The UK′s Contemporary Institutional Framework for Leisure
The Local State and Leisure Provision in the United Kingdom
Work and Leisure – Post Fordism and the Changing Nature of Work
Work and Leisure: the Leisure Society, Unemployment and Post-Work
Globalisation and Leisure: the Consumer Society
Globalisation and Leisure: Mc Disneyization and Post-Tourism
लेखक के बारे में
Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner′s Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).
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