1st Edition
Between Work and Leisure The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
By Robert A. Stebbins
Copyright 2004
165 Pages
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Routledge
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Between Work and Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that work and leisure are separate and mutually antagonistic spheres of life. Stebbins shows that a close relationship between leisure and work is positive, offering people the possibility of finding joy in work just as they do in leisure. Occupational devotion, as Stebbins defines it, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Occupational Devotion and Occupational Devotees
2. Protestant Ethic, Work Ethic, and Occupational Devotion
3. Gender, Family, Social Class, and Social Character
4. Serious Leisure
5. Erasing the Line between Work and Leisure
6. Work, Leisure, and Money in Everyday Life
7. Common Ground in Separate Worlds: Some Implications
References
Index
Biography
Robert A. Stebbins
