Dancing through life in a changing world
Life course, historical time and serious leisure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21729691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satu Heikkinen (0000-0001-5521-1209, Karlstad University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-330 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leisure/Loisir (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1492-7713 • E-ISSN: 2151-2221 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14927713.2021.1874833 |
| OpenAlex | W3121262811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
There is a lack of studies taking a life course perspective in the growing field of research on the social aspects of older people’s dance. This study aims to redress this negligence by exploring older people’s experiences of social dance through life by using a life course perspective. In the process of analysis, the theoretical framework was informed by the serious leisure perspective. Twenty-six qualitative interviews were conducted with older people active in dances originating from the Swedish folk park tradition. The results demonstrate how life events, historical events, social change, and individuals’ involvement affect experiences of social dance through life. The study also highlights experiences of discontinuity caused by social change, i.e. changes in the social world of folk park dance. By combining the life course perspective with assumptions from the serious leisure perspective the study contributes to research discussions about the need to contextualize the serious leisure perspective
Art · Dance · Everyday life · Life course approach · Political science · Qualitative research · Redress · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
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Reconsidering Change and Continuity in Later Life
“Life Without Line Dancing and the Other Activities Would be Too Dreadful to Imagine”
The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory
Ethnography
“We're Gators … Not Just Gator Fans”
The influence of meaningful leisure on the subjective well-being of older adults in the Basque Country of Northern Spain
I will never quit dancing”. The emotional experiences of social dancing among older persons
On gray dancing
Meanings of leisure for older people
Becoming a belly dancer
The redefining of later life through leisure
Blowing Open the Serious Leisure-Casual Leisure Dichotomy
The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure
Growing old gracefully
I think I have had a good life’
Pleasure and time in senior dance
Social Democracy and the Creation of the Public Interest
The Nature of Social Worlds
Qualitative Data Analysis
Memoryscapes and mediascapes
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |