By Chris Rojek
Relaxation has regularly been linked to freedom, selection and adaptability. The week-end and holidays have been celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new booklet, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to illustrate how relaxation has develop into a sort of labour. sleek women and men are required to be powerfuble, appropriate and credible, not just within the paintings position yet with their friends, young ones, mom and dad and communities. Read more...
content material: disguise; CONTENTS; checklist OF FIGURES; 1 POSITIONING relaxation; 2 THE relaxation SOCIETY THESIS AND ITS outcomes; three ROADBLOCKS TO loose TIME; four VISIONARIES AND PRAGMATISTS; five what's wrong WITH relaxation STUDIES?; 6 a number of EQUILIBRIA: A BALANCED process; 7 THE kingdom; eight organizations; nine it is STILLLEISURE, silly; NOTES; REFERENCES; writer INDEX; topic INDEX.
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After all, this or that research classification scheme designed to encapsulate time budget use is of limited value in revealing the meanings, motivations and feelings of actors. Jonathan Gershuny (2000) is a leading figure in the field of time budget studies. According to him, there is a progressive trend in the allocation of leisure time. As wealth increases people have a greater propensity to engage in what Bob Stebbins (1992, 2002) calls ‘serious leisure’; that is, free time activities that involve choices requiring the development of a skill and a career.
By this he means that leisure forms and practices influence the jobs that people choose, the areas of the country in This SAGE ebook is copyright and is supplied by Dawsonera. Unauthorised distribution forbidden. 2 Although he does not draw the comparison directly, it is clear that he regards society to be on the brink of exchanging the work ethic for the leisure ethic. Kaplan and Dumazedier were in fact proposing early versions of the leisure society thesis. Yet fittingly for a field of study that had for so long played the role of Cinderella to the more powerful disciplines of Philosophy, Business and Social Science, the buds of the leisure society thesis sprouted from elsewhere.
According to this logic, the process of the maturation of industrialization inevitably increases the resource allocation to education, welfare and leisure. Kerr (1962) and his associates were chiefly interested in the subject of the consequences of industrial maturity for management– labour relations. In part their concept of a ‘logic to industrialization’ is polemical, since the inference is that the Soviet-style command systems of the day would be forced to modify their ideology once industrialization in their territories reached an appropriate level of maturity.