Leisure in contemporary society / Ken Roberts.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxon, U.K. ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: Second editionDescription: xii, 260 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 184593069X
- 9781845930691
- 306.4812 22
- GV14.45 .R63 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Leisure : past and present -- 2. The growth of leisure -- 3. Work and leisure -- 4. Gender -- 5. The life course -- 6. Lifestyles and identities -- 7. Consumption and consumerism -- 8. The transformation of leisure?
"This second edition is a complete rewrite of the first edition published in 1999. It is an introductory undergraduate text on leisure. It has a sociological perspective and discusses recent debates and research on topics such as post-modernity, consumer cultures and lifestyles. This book will be of significant interest to students and researchers in the sociology of leisure."--BOOK JACKET.
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