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Kenneth Roberts
ISBN: 9781845930691
Format: Paperback
Publisher:CABI Publishing
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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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. This book will be of significant interest to students and researchers in the sociology of leisure.
This introductory textbook discusses the major theories and debates within the sociology of leisure. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples, the book explores how leisure is changing in post-modern times, how and why work-life balance has become an important issue, whether women are still the disadvantaged sex in respect of access to leisure, whether leisure has answers to the problems of ageing populations, and whether leisure-based lifestyles are becoming significant sources of social and personal identity.
| ISBN | 184593069X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781845930691
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 590 | | Publisher | CABI Publishing | | Published in | Wallingford | | Imprint | CABI Publishing | | Series title | Cabi Publishing | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780851993386 | | Publication date | 15 Aug 2006 | | Height (mm) | 243 | | Library of Congress | 2005023099 | | Width (mm) | 174 | | DEWEY | 306.4812 | | Spine width (mm) | 15 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 304 | |
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| 1 | | Leisure : past and present | | 1 | | 2 | | The growth of leisure | | 23 | | 3 | | Work and leisure | | 55 | | 4 | | Gender | | 98 | | 5 | | The life course | | 123 | | 6 | | Lifestyles and identities | | 163 | | 7 | | Consumption and consumerism | | 183 | | 8 | | The transformation of leisure? | | 211 |
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