Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time

by Robert A. Stebbins

Book Overview

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert A. Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious (skilled), casual (unskilled), and project-based (short-term) leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls the "serious leisure perspective." Stebbins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412855942
• ISBN13: 9781412855945
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"