Adventure Revisited

On Structure and Metaphor in Specialized Play

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2321272
AutoresLise Kjølsrød (University of Oslo, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas459-476
Data de publicação2003-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380385030373004
OpenAlexW1991898897
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas9

Contemporary society offers a large repertoire of 'adventures', culturally adapted to the maturity, gender and class of those who participate. The captivating, yet challenging demands of, say, collecting objects, backpacking, or mountaineering, guide actors to turn their adventures into personal frames or proto-boundaries through which ideas of 'self ' evolve. Of the many possible selves a person may relate to, only a few are actually enacted upon and even fewer are embraced. An identity moulded in play is distinctive in the sense that it is also a chosen identity, easily incorporated into self-supporting narratives. By studying how men and women carve metaphors out of their leisure, sociology may acquire a better understanding of how contradictions within the 'subject-self ' are actually recognized and chronicled. This type of adult play sheds light not only on processes of identity and individuation but also on issues of individual and social integration, and organization

Adventure · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Individuation · Literature · Maturity (psychological) · Narrative · Narrative identity · Personal identity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts