Leisure

Bibliographic Data

ID7075889
AuthorsSheila Scraton (0000-0002-0492-3430, Leeds Beckett University), Becky Watson (Leeds Beckett University)
Year2016
Pages1-5
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl030.pub2
OpenAlexW4253384230
ISBN9781405165518
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

Leisure has traditionally been associated with work, as compensation from daily routines or residual time when other commitments have taken place. Since the 1970s leisure has been studied within its social context. Pluralist, Marxist, and feminist understandings of leisure have increasingly been replaced by analyses of leisure as a key site of cultural consumption. Leisure research has developed from large‐scale national surveys of participation to more micro, individualized accounts of leisure experience. Current research explores the increasingly complex and permeable boundaries between work and leisure, for example, through the concepts of serious leisure and volunteering. Leisure spaces are important sites of cultural consumption with current research emphasizing the body, empowerment and the construction of identity through leisure. There are areas of leisure that remain under‐researched including race, ethnicities and whiteness; masculinities; class; globalization and migration

Aesthetics · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Empowerment · Ethnic group · Geography · Globalization · Identity (music · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of leisure · Work (physics · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Gender Studies · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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