1st Edition

Leisure Identities and Interactions

By John R. Kelly Copyright 1983
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1983. Leisure has too often been approached as a set of activities that people do when everything important has been completed. This text provides a different analysis demonstrating the centrality of leisure to human development and to important relationships. In Leisure Identities and Interactions the author analyses leisure in the context of role changes through the life... Read more

Preface;  1. Meanings of Leisure: An Introduction;  Part One: Styles of Leisure: Variety and Meaning;  2. Variations in Leisure Styles  3. Life Course Changes  4. Personal and Social Identities;  Part Two: Social Contexts of Leisure;  5. Leisure and the Family  6. Face-to-Face Interaction  7. Leisure Planning and Provision  8. Leisure Interaction and the Social Dialectic;  Index

Biography

John R. Kelly