Robert A Stebbins: 14 books
Between Work and Leisure
The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing work, where the sense of achievement is high and the core activity, or set of tasks, is endowed with such intense appeal that the line between work and leisure is virtually erased....
The Idea of Leisure
First Principles
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A range of thinkers in philosophy, religion, and the social sciences have argued that thanks to science, technology, and the organization of society, the human condition has improved and will continue to do so. People are becoming progressively happier and enjoying an ever-improving quality of life,...
Leisure Activities in Context
A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical framework that can explain how leisure studies interact in various social contexts (cultural, temporal,...
Work and Leisure in the Middle East
The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa.Yet leisure and community involvement form a part of life in the region, and are becoming increasingly significant as modernization becomes pervasive. This work seeks to examine how the...
by Elie Cohen-Gewerc, Robert A. Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
What does it mean to be an individual and how can an individual exist within society? Serious Leisure and Individuality examines the circumstances in the modern world that make for individual distinctiveness, and the role of these conditions in personal and social life. "The individual," said Friedrich...
Leisure’s Legacy
Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.
Leisure’s modern legacy is both profound and immense, as...
Leisure and Positive Psychology
Linking Activities with Positiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as flow, fulfilment, altruism, well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
by Robert A. Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is discussed as the...
The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play
Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study of play is unique. It recognizes the hundreds of activities in which play and leisure come together.
by Robert A. Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Scholars in leisure studies have amassed an impressive record of knowledge bearing on the social worlds of diverse serious pursuits, yet this sphere of modern life still needs a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, and where they fit in social theory. The core activities...
The Serious Leisure Perspective
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The "Serious Leisure Perspective" (SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience. Bringing together the study of serious leisure, casual leisure and project-based leisure, it is an essential component...
The Committed Reader
Reading for Utility, Pleasure, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling. Pleasurable reading is conceptualized as an important kind of casual leisure, experienced primarily as relaxation, active entertainment, and sexual stimulation (racy, pornographic stories)....
From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians
Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A main theme running through this book is that we cannot understand the virtues of humility and modesty without an equally good understanding of the vices of hubris and conceit. All four attitudes express self-esteem, which flourishes in the soil of achievement. Achievement is valued in any challenging...
Planning Your Time in Retirement
How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Much of what is written about getting old has a negative feel to it, which is certainly not entirely unjustified. Health may begin to fail. Finances may become tighter as income dwindles or stops altogether. Family and friends may move away or move on. But the retirement years do not have to be negative...