The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies
First Edition
Tony Blackshaw
- Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Garry Crawford
- University of Salford, UK
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'This dictionary offers a unique contribution to the field. It covers a broad range of concepts and theories, enabling students to easily access definitions of key terms as well as introducing them to a range of contemporary ideas about Leisure. In doing so, it provides a valuable reference point for students, and can be used to signpost further relevant reading' - Dr Fiona Jordan, School of the Built and Natural Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol
What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field?
This is the first full length dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures, and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions.
Key Features
- Provides an unprecedented critical survey of the field
- Offers students authoritative, comprehensive accounts of the basic concepts and leading figures
- Provides students with core resources to write essays and pass exams
Written by teachers experienced with the needs of undergraduate and graduate students in the field, the book will be quickly recognized as a vital asset in making sense of Leisure Studies.
Contents
A and B Analysis
A and B Analysis
Abnormal Leisure
Abnormal Leisure
Acculturation
Acculturation
Action Analysis
Action Analysis
Action Research
Action Research
Addictions
Addictions
Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)
Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)
Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Ageing and Leisure
Ageing and Leisure
Agency see Structure and Agency
Agency see Structure and Agency
Alienation
Alienation
Amateur and Amateurism
Amateur and Amateurism
Animal Rights
Animal Rights
Anomie
Anomie
Ansoff Matrix
Ansoff Matrix
Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)
Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)
Asceticism
Asceticism
Assets, Liabilities and Capital
Assets, Liabilities and Capital
Audiences
Audiences
Authenticity
Authenticity
Baudrillard, Jean
Baudrillard, Jean
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bauman, Zygmunt
Binary Oppositions
Binary Oppositions
Birmingham School, The
Birmingham School, The
Blood Sports
Blood Sports
Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies
Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies
Bohemians
Bohemians
Boston Matrix
Boston Matrix
Bourdieu, Pierre
Bourdieu, Pierre
Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image
Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image
Budgeting
Budgeting
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
Business Environment
Business Environment
Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)
Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)
Capitalism
Capitalism
Carnivalesque
Carnivalesque
Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)
Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)
Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)
Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)
Catharsis and Cathexis
Catharsis and Cathexis
Celebrity
Celebrity
Civil Society
Civil Society
Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)
Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)
Class
Class
Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)
Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)
Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)
Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)
Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)
Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)
Commodity Fetishism
Commodity Fetishism
Communication
Communication
Community
Community
Community Action
Community Action
Community Leisure
Community Leisure
Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)
Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Computer Games (see Digital Games)
Computer Games (see Digital Games)
Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing
Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing
Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)
Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)
Consumer Society
Consumer Society
Consumption
Consumption
Content Analysis
Content Analysis
Conversational Analysis
Conversational Analysis
Cool
Cool
Cost Accounting
Cost Accounting
Crafts and Craftsmanship
Crafts and Craftsmanship
Crime (see Deviance)
Crime (see Deviance)
Critical Theory
Critical Theory
Cruising
Cruising
Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital
Cultural Intermediaries
Cultural Intermediaries
Cultural Omnivores
Cultural Omnivores
Culture
Culture
Cyberculture
Cyberculture
Deadweight Expenditure
Deadweight Expenditure
Decentring Leisure
Decentring Leisure
Deconstruction
Deconstruction
Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)
Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)
Demand
Demand
Demand for Health Model
Demand for Health Model
Desire
Desire
Deviance
Deviance
Digital Gaming
Digital Gaming
Dionysian Leisure
Dionysian Leisure
Discourses see Discursive Formations
Discourses see Discursive Formations
Discursive Formations
Discursive Formations
Disneyization
Disneyization
Distinction
Distinction
Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)
Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)
Double-entry bookkeeping
Double-entry bookkeeping
Dromology and Speed
Dromology and Speed
Drugs see Addiction
Drugs see Addiction
Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)
Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)
Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events
Edgework
Edgework
Elasticity
Elasticity
Elias, Norbert
Elias, Norbert
Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)
Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)
Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)
Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)
Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)
Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)
Ethics
Ethics
Ethnography
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology
Event Management
Event Management
Everyday Life
Everyday Life
Extreme Leisure
Extreme Leisure
False Consciousness
False Consciousness
Fans
Fans
Fantasy Leisure
Fantasy Leisure
Fanzines
Fanzines
Fashion
Fashion
Feminism
Feminism
Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)
Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)
Financial and Management Accounting
Financial and Management Accounting
Financial Health and Ratio Analysis
Financial Health and Ratio Analysis
Financial Statements
Financial Statements
Focus groups
Focus groups
Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography
Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography
Flow
Flow
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Football Hooliganism
Football Hooliganism
Foucault, Michel
Foucault, Michel
Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)
Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)
Free Time
Free Time
Freud, Sigmund
Freud, Sigmund
Full Time Equivalent Jobs
Full Time Equivalent Jobs
Functionalism
Functionalism
Gambling
Gambling
Game Theory
Game Theory
Gatekeepers
Gatekeepers
Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)
Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)
Giddens, Anthony
Giddens, Anthony
Globalization
Globalization
Goffman, Erving
Goffman, Erving
Governmentality
Governmentality
Habitus, Field and Capital
Habitus, Field and Capital
Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)
Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)
Happiness
Happiness
Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)
Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)
Hedonism
Hedonism
Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)
Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)
Hegemony
Hegemony
Heritage
Heritage
Hexis (see Habitus)
Hexis (see Habitus)
Hobbies
Hobbies
Hoggart, Richard
Hoggart, Richard
Household Production Function Approach, The
Household Production Function Approach, The
Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)
Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)
Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management
Identity
Identity
Ideology
Ideology
Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating
Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating
Individualization
Individualization
Intertextuality
Intertextuality
Interviews
Interviews
'Into', the
'Into', the
Invisible Exports
Invisible Exports
Involvement and Detachment
Involvement and Detachment
Leisure
Leisure
Leisure and the Environment
Leisure and the Environment
Leisure and the Life Course
Leisure and the Life Course
Leisure as a Value-Sphere
Leisure as a Value-Sphere
Leisure Bodies
Leisure Bodies
Leisure Class
Leisure Class
Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)
Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)
Leisure Education
Leisure Education
Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)
Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)
Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)
Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)
Leisure in the Community
Leisure in the Community
Leisure Life-Style
Leisure Life-Style
Leisure Life-World
Leisure Life-World
Leisure Marketing
Leisure Marketing
Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)
Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)
Leisure Policy
Leisure Policy
Leisure Society
Leisure Society
Leisure Studies
Leisure Studies
Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)
Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)
Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)
Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)
Liminality
Liminality
Liquid Modernity
Liquid Modernity
Management Styles
Management Styles
Market Positioning and Market Segmentation
Market Positioning and Market Segmentation
Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)
Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)
Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries
Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries
Marxism
Marxism
Masculinity and Masculinities
Masculinity and Masculinities
Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)
Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)
Mass Media
Mass Media
Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation
McDonaldization
McDonaldization
Methodology
Methodology
Mimesis
Mimesis
Modernism
Modernism
Modernity
Modernity
Monopolistic competition
Monopolistic competition
Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Motivation
Motivation
Multiplier Analysis
Multiplier Analysis
Neo-classical analysis
Neo-classical analysis
Neo-Marxism see Marxism
Neo-Marxism see Marxism
Neo-Tribes
Neo-Tribes
Network Society
Network Society
New Social Movements
New Social Movements
Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)
Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)
Non-Place
Non-Place
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)
Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)
Oral/Life History
Oral/Life History
Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)
Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)
Paradigms
Paradigms
Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)
Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)
Participant Observation (see Observation)
Participant Observation (see Observation)
Performativity
Performativity
Pilot Study
Pilot Study
Play
Play
Play Ethic
Play Ethic
Pleasure
Pleasure
Policy (see Leisure Policy)
Policy (see Leisure Policy)
Popular Culture
Popular Culture
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Pornography
Pornography
Postcolonialism see Acculturation
Postcolonialism see Acculturation
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Postmodernity
Power
Power
Profit and Utility Maximisation
Profit and Utility Maximisation
Public and Private Goods
Public and Private Goods
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research
Quality of Life see Well-being
Quality of Life see Well-being
Quality Systems
Quality Systems
Quantitative Research
Quantitative Research
Queer Theory
Queer Theory
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Racism and Leisure
Racism and Leisure
Rational Recreation (see Recreation)
Rational Recreation (see Recreation)
Recreation
Recreation
Religion
Religion
Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)
Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)
Risk Management
Risk Management
Risk Society
Risk Society
Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)
Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)
Rojek, Chris
Rojek, Chris
Sampling
Sampling
Schor, Juliet B.
Schor, Juliet B.
Self, The (see Identity)
Self, The (see Identity)
Semiotics/Semiology
Semiotics/Semiology
Serious Leisure
Serious Leisure
Sex
Sex
Sexual Exploitation
Sexual Exploitation
Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)
Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)
Shopping
Shopping
Social Capital
Social Capital
Social Class see Class
Social Class see Class
Social Control
Social Control
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis
Spectacle
Spectacle
Sport
Sport
Sportization
Sportization
Status
Status
Stebbins, Robert A. (see Amateur and Amateurism; Hobbies; Serious Leisure; Well-being)
Stebbins, Robert A. (see Amateur and Amateurism; Hobbies; Serious Leisure; Well-being)
Structure and Agency
Structure and Agency
Structure of Feeling
Structure of Feeling
Subcultures
Subcultures
Supermodernity (see Non-Place)
Supermodernity (see Non-Place)
Supply
Supply
Surveillance
Surveillance
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
Taste (see Distinction)
Taste (see Distinction)
Theming
Theming
Third Way
Third Way
Three Sector Provision of Leisure
Three Sector Provision of Leisure
Time Budget Diaries
Time Budget Diaries
Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management
Tourism
Tourism
Tourist Gaze (see Tourism)
Tourist Gaze (see Tourism)
Training and Development and Appraisals
Training and Development and Appraisals
Unemployment, Leisure in
Unemployment, Leisure in
Veal, Tony (see Leisure Life-Style; Leisure Studies)
Veal, Tony (see Leisure Life-Style; Leisure Studies)
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Violence
Violence
Video Games see Digital Gaming
Video Games see Digital Gaming
Virtual Leisure
Virtual Leisure
Volunteers and Volunteering
Volunteers and Volunteering
Weber, Max (see Asceticism; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Leisure as a Value-Sphere; McDonaldization; Status; Work Ethic)
Weber, Max (see Asceticism; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Leisure as a Value-Sphere; McDonaldization; Status; Work Ethic)
Weisbrod's Hypotheses
Weisbrod's Hypotheses
Well-being
Well-being
Women's Leisure
Women's Leisure
Work Ethic
Work Ethic
Work-Leisure
Work-Leisure
Youth
Youth
Zombie Categories
Zombie Categories
Zones
Zones
Description
'This dictionary offers a unique contribution to the field. It covers a broad range of concepts and theories, enabling students to easily access definitions of key terms as well as introducing them to a range of contemporary ideas about Leisure. In doing so, it provides a valuable reference point for students, and can be used to signpost further relevant reading' - Dr Fiona Jordan, School of the Built and Natural Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol
What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field?
This is the first full length dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures, and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions.
Key Features
- Provides an unprecedented critical survey of the field
- Offers students authoritative, comprehensive accounts of the basic concepts and leading figures
- Provides students with core resources to write essays and pass exams
Written by teachers experienced with the needs of undergraduate and graduate students in the field, the book will be quickly recognized as a vital asset in making sense of Leisure Studies.
Contents
A and B Analysis
A and B Analysis
Abnormal Leisure
Abnormal Leisure
Acculturation
Acculturation
Action Analysis
Action Analysis
Action Research
Action Research
Addictions
Addictions
Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)
Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)
Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Ageing and Leisure
Ageing and Leisure
Agency see Structure and Agency
Agency see Structure and Agency
Alienation
Alienation
Amateur and Amateurism
Amateur and Amateurism
Animal Rights
Animal Rights
Anomie
Anomie
Ansoff Matrix
Ansoff Matrix
Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)
Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)
Asceticism
Asceticism
Assets, Liabilities and Capital
Assets, Liabilities and Capital
Audiences
Audiences
Authenticity
Authenticity
Baudrillard, Jean
Baudrillard, Jean
Bauman, Zygmunt
Bauman, Zygmunt
Binary Oppositions
Binary Oppositions
Birmingham School, The
Birmingham School, The
Blood Sports
Blood Sports
Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies
Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies
Bohemians
Bohemians
Boston Matrix
Boston Matrix
Bourdieu, Pierre
Bourdieu, Pierre
Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image
Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image
Budgeting
Budgeting
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy
Business Environment
Business Environment
Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)
Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)
Capitalism
Capitalism
Carnivalesque
Carnivalesque
Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)
Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)
Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)
Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)
Catharsis and Cathexis
Catharsis and Cathexis
Celebrity
Celebrity
Civil Society
Civil Society
Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)
Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)
Class
Class
Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)
Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)
Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)
Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)
Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)
Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)
Commodity Fetishism
Commodity Fetishism
Communication
Communication
Community
Community
Community Action
Community Action
Community Leisure
Community Leisure
Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)
Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Compulsory Heterosexuality
Computer Games (see Digital Games)
Computer Games (see Digital Games)
Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing
Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing
Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)
Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)
Consumer Society
Consumer Society
Consumption
Consumption
Content Analysis
Content Analysis
Conversational Analysis
Conversational Analysis
Cool
Cool
Cost Accounting
Cost Accounting
Crafts and Craftsmanship
Crafts and Craftsmanship
Crime (see Deviance)
Crime (see Deviance)
Critical Theory
Critical Theory
Cruising
Cruising
Cultural Capital
Cultural Capital
Cultural Intermediaries
Cultural Intermediaries
Cultural Omnivores
Cultural Omnivores
Culture
Culture
Cyberculture
Cyberculture
Deadweight Expenditure
Deadweight Expenditure
Decentring Leisure
Decentring Leisure
Deconstruction
Deconstruction
Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)
Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)
Demand
Demand
Demand for Health Model
Demand for Health Model
Desire
Desire
Deviance
Deviance
Digital Gaming
Digital Gaming
Dionysian Leisure
Dionysian Leisure
Discourses see Discursive Formations
Discourses see Discursive Formations
Discursive Formations
Discursive Formations
Disneyization
Disneyization
Distinction
Distinction
Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)
Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)
Double-entry bookkeeping
Double-entry bookkeeping
Dromology and Speed
Dromology and Speed
Drugs see Addiction
Drugs see Addiction
Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)
Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)
Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events
Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events
Edgework
Edgework
Elasticity
Elasticity
Elias, Norbert
Elias, Norbert
Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)
Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)
Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)
Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)
Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)
Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)
Ethics
Ethics
Ethnography
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology
Event Management
Event Management
Everyday Life
Everyday Life
Extreme Leisure
Extreme Leisure
False Consciousness
False Consciousness
Fans
Fans
Fantasy Leisure
Fantasy Leisure
Fanzines
Fanzines
Fashion
Fashion
Feminism
Feminism
Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)
Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)
Financial and Management Accounting
Financial and Management Accounting
Financial Health and Ratio Analysis
Financial Health and Ratio Analysis
Financial Statements
Financial Statements
Focus groups
Focus groups
Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography
Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography
Flow
Flow
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Football Hooliganism
Football Hooliganism
Foucault, Michel
Foucault, Michel
Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)
Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)
Free Time
Free Time
Freud, Sigmund
Freud, Sigmund
Full Time Equivalent Jobs
Full Time Equivalent Jobs
Functionalism
Functionalism
Gambling
Gambling
Game Theory
Game Theory
Gatekeepers
Gatekeepers
Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)
Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)
Giddens, Anthony
Giddens, Anthony
Globalization
Globalization
Goffman, Erving
Goffman, Erving
Governmentality
Governmentality
Habitus, Field and Capital
Habitus, Field and Capital
Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)
Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)
Happiness
Happiness
Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)
Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)
Hedonism
Hedonism
Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)
Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)
Hegemony
Hegemony
Heritage
Heritage
Hexis (see Habitus)
Hexis (see Habitus)
Hobbies
Hobbies
Hoggart, Richard
Hoggart, Richard
Household Production Function Approach, The
Household Production Function Approach, The
Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)
Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)
Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management
Identity
Identity
Ideology
Ideology
Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating
Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating
Individualization
Individualization
Intertextuality
Intertextuality
Interviews
Interviews
'Into', the
'Into', the
Invisible Exports
Invisible Exports
Involvement and Detachment
Involvement and Detachment
Leisure
Leisure
Leisure and the Environment
Leisure and the Environment
Leisure and the Life Course
Leisure and the Life Course
Leisure as a Value-Sphere
Leisure as a Value-Sphere
Leisure Bodies
Leisure Bodies
Leisure Class
Leisure Class
Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)
Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)
Leisure Education
Leisure Education
Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)
Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)
Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)
Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)
Leisure in the Community
Leisure in the Community
Leisure Life-Style
Leisure Life-Style
Leisure Life-World
Leisure Life-World
Leisure Marketing
Leisure Marketing
Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)
Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)
Leisure Policy
Leisure Policy
Leisure Society
Leisure Society
Leisure Studies
Leisure Studies
Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)
Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)
Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)
Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)
Liminality
Liminality
Liquid Modernity
Liquid Modernity
Management Styles
Management Styles
Market Positioning and Market Segmentation
Market Positioning and Market Segmentation
Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)
Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)
Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries
Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries
Marxism
Marxism
Masculinity and Masculinities
Masculinity and Masculinities
Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)
Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)
Mass Media
Mass Media
Mass-Observation
Mass-Observation
McDonaldization
McDonaldization
Methodology
Methodology
Mimesis
Mimesis
Modernism
Modernism
Modernity
Modernity
Monopolistic competition
Monopolistic competition
Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Motivation
Motivation
Multiplier Analysis
Multiplier Analysis
Neo-classical analysis
Neo-classical analysis
Neo-Marxism see Marxism
Neo-Marxism see Marxism
Neo-Tribes
Neo-Tribes
Network Society
Network Society
New Social Movements
New Social Movements
Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)
Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)
Non-Place
Non-Place
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)
Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)
Oral/Life History
Oral/Life History
Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)
Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)
Paradigms
Paradigms
Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)
Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)
Participant Observation (see Observation)
Participant Observation (see Observation)
Performativity
Performativity
Pilot Study
Pilot Study
Play
Play
Play Ethic
Play Ethic
Pleasure
Pleasure
Policy (see Leisure Policy)
Policy (see Leisure Policy)
Popular Culture
Popular Culture
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Pornography
Pornography
Postcolonialism see Acculturation
Postcolonialism see Acculturation
Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Postmodernity
Power
Power
Profit and Utility Maximisation
Profit and Utility Maximisation
Public and Private Goods
Public and Private Goods
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research
Quality of Life see Well-being
Quality of Life see Well-being
Quality Systems
Quality Systems
Quantitative Research
Quantitative Research
Queer Theory
Queer Theory
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Racism and Leisure
Racism and Leisure
Rational Recreation (see Recreation)
Rational Recreation (see Recreation)
Recreation
Recreation
Religion
Religion
Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)
Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)
Risk Management
Risk Management
Risk Society
Risk Society
Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)
Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)
Rojek, Chris
Rojek, Chris
Sampling
Sampling
Schor, Juliet B.
Schor, Juliet B.
Self, The (see Identity)
Self, The (see Identity)
Semiotics/Semiology
Semiotics/Semiology
Serious Leisure
Serious Leisure
Sex
Sex
Sexual Exploitation
Sexual Exploitation
Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)
Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)
Shopping
Shopping
Social Capital
Social Capital
Social Class see Class
Social Class see Class
Social Control
Social Control
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis
Spectacle
Spectacle
Sport
Sport
Sportization
Sportization
Status
Status
Stebbins, Robert A. (see Amateur and Amateurism; Hobbies; Serious Leisure; Well-being)
Stebbins, Robert A. (see Amateur and Amateurism; Hobbies; Serious Leisure; Well-being)
Structure and Agency
Structure and Agency
Structure of Feeling
Structure of Feeling
Subcultures
Subcultures
Supermodernity (see Non-Place)
Supermodernity (see Non-Place)
Supply
Supply
Surveillance
Surveillance
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism
Taste (see Distinction)
Taste (see Distinction)
Theming
Theming
Third Way
Third Way
Three Sector Provision of Leisure
Three Sector Provision of Leisure
Time Budget Diaries
Time Budget Diaries
Total Quality Management
Total Quality Management
Tourism
Tourism
Tourist Gaze (see Tourism)
Tourist Gaze (see Tourism)
Training and Development and Appraisals
Training and Development and Appraisals
Unemployment, Leisure in
Unemployment, Leisure in
Veal, Tony (see Leisure Life-Style; Leisure Studies)
Veal, Tony (see Leisure Life-Style; Leisure Studies)
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Violence
Violence
Video Games see Digital Gaming
Video Games see Digital Gaming
Virtual Leisure
Virtual Leisure
Volunteers and Volunteering
Volunteers and Volunteering
Weber, Max (see Asceticism; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Leisure as a Value-Sphere; McDonaldization; Status; Work Ethic)
Weber, Max (see Asceticism; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Leisure as a Value-Sphere; McDonaldization; Status; Work Ethic)
Weisbrod's Hypotheses
Weisbrod's Hypotheses
Well-being
Well-being
Women's Leisure
Women's Leisure
Work Ethic
Work Ethic
Work-Leisure
Work-Leisure
Youth
Youth
Zombie Categories
Zombie Categories
Zones
Zones
Reviews
October 2009 | 272 pages | Sage UK
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'This dictionary offers a unique contribution to the field. It covers a broad range of concepts and theories, enabling students to easily access definitions of key terms as well as introducing them to a range of contemporary ideas about Leisure. In doing so, it provides a valuable reference point for students, and can be used to signpost further relevant reading' - Dr Fiona Jordan, School of the Built and Natural Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol
What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field?
This is the first full length dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures, and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions.
Key Features
- Provides an unprecedented critical survey of the field
- Offers students authoritative, comprehensive accounts of the basic concepts and leading figures
- Provides students with core resources to write essays and pass exams
Written by teachers experienced with the needs of undergraduate and graduate students in the field, the book will be quickly recognized as a vital asset in making sense of Leisure Studies.
Table Of Contents:
- A and B Analysis
- Abnormal Leisure
- Acculturation
- Action Analysis
- Action Research
- Addictions
- Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)
- Aesthetics
- Ageing and Leisure
- Agency see Structure and Agency
- Alienation
- Amateur and Amateurism
- Animal Rights
- Anomie
- Ansoff Matrix
- Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)
- Asceticism
- Assets, Liabilities and Capital
- Audiences
- Authenticity
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Bauman, Zygmunt
- Binary Oppositions
- Birmingham School, The
- Blood Sports
- Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies
- Bohemians
- Boston Matrix
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image
- Budgeting
- Bureaucracy
- Business Environment
- Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)
- Capitalism
- Carnivalesque
- Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)
- Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)
- Catharsis and Cathexis
- Celebrity
- Civil Society
- Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)
- Class
- Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)
- Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)
- Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)
- Commodity Fetishism
- Communication
- Community
- Community Action
- Community Leisure
- Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)
- Compulsory Heterosexuality
- Computer Games (see Digital Games)
- Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing
- Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)
- Consumer Society
- Consumption
- Content Analysis
- Conversational Analysis
- Cool
- Cost Accounting
- Crafts and Craftsmanship
- Crime (see Deviance)
- Critical Theory
- Cruising
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Intermediaries
- Cultural Omnivores
- Culture
- Cyberculture
- Deadweight Expenditure
- Decentring Leisure
- Deconstruction
- Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)
- Demand
- Demand for Health Model
- Desire
- Deviance
- Digital Gaming
- Dionysian Leisure
- Discourses see Discursive Formations
- Discursive Formations
- Disneyization
- Distinction
- Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Dromology and Speed
- Drugs see Addiction
- Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)
- Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events
- Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events
- Edgework
- Elasticity
- Elias, Norbert
- Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)
- Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)
- Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)
- Ethics
- Ethnography
- Ethnomethodology
- Event Management
- Everyday Life
- Extreme Leisure
- False Consciousness
- Fans
- Fantasy Leisure
- Fanzines
- Fashion
- Feminism
- Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)
- Financial and Management Accounting
- Financial Health and Ratio Analysis
- Financial Statements
- Focus groups
- Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography
- Flow
- Folk Devils and Moral Panics
- Football Hooliganism
- Foucault, Michel
- Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)
- Free Time
- Freud, Sigmund
- Full Time Equivalent Jobs
- Functionalism
- Gambling
- Game Theory
- Gatekeepers
- Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)
- Giddens, Anthony
- Globalization
- Goffman, Erving
- Governmentality
- Habitus, Field and Capital
- Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)
- Happiness
- Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)
- Hedonism
- Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)
- Hegemony
- Heritage
- Hexis (see Habitus)
- Hobbies
- Hoggart, Richard
- Household Production Function Approach, The
- Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)
- Human Resource Management
- Identity
- Ideology
- Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating
- Individualization
- Intertextuality
- Interviews
- 'Into', the
- Invisible Exports
- Involvement and Detachment
- Leisure
- Leisure and the Environment
- Leisure and the Life Course
- Leisure as a Value-Sphere
- Leisure Bodies
- Leisure Class
- Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)
- Leisure Education
- Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)
- Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)
- Leisure in the Community
- Leisure Life-Style
- Leisure Life-World
- Leisure Marketing
- Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)
- Leisure Policy
- Leisure Society
- Leisure Studies
- Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)
- Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)
- Liminality
- Liquid Modernity
- Management Styles
- Market Positioning and Market Segmentation
- Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)
- Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries
- Marxism
- Masculinity and Masculinities
- Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)
- Mass Media
- Mass-Observation
- McDonaldization
- Methodology
- Mimesis
- Modernism
- Modernity
- Monopolistic competition
- Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
- Motivation
- Multiplier Analysis
- Neo-classical analysis
- Neo-Marxism see Marxism
- Neo-Tribes
- Network Society
- New Social Movements
- Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)
- Non-Place
- Nostalgia
- Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)
- Oral/Life History
- Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)
- Paradigms
- Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)
- Participant Observation (see Observation)
- Performativity
- Pilot Study
- Play
- Play Ethic
- Pleasure
- Policy (see Leisure Policy)
- Popular Culture
- Postmodernism
- Pornography
- Postcolonialism see Acculturation
- Postmodernism
- Postmodernity
- Power
- Profit and Utility Maximisation
- Public and Private Goods
- Qualitative Research
- Quality of Life see Well-being
- Quality Systems
- Quantitative Research
- Queer Theory
- Questionnaires
- Racism and Leisure
- Rational Recreation (see Recreation)
- Recreation
- Religion
- Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)
- Risk Management
- Risk Society
- Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)
- Rojek, Chris
- Sampling
- Schor, Juliet B.
- Self, The (see Identity)
- Semiotics/Semiology
- Serious Leisure
- Sex
- Sexual Exploitation
- Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)
- Shopping
- Social Capital
- Social Class see Class
- Social Control
- Social Network Analysis
- Spectacle
- Sport
- Sportization
- Status
- Stebbins, Robert A. (see Amateur and Amateurism; Hobbies; Serious Leisure; Well-being)
- Structure and Agency
- Structure of Feeling
- Subcultures
- Supermodernity (see Non-Place)
- Supply
- Surveillance
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Taste (see Distinction)
- Theming
- Third Way
- Three Sector Provision of Leisure
- Time Budget Diaries
- Total Quality Management
- Tourism
- Tourist Gaze (see Tourism)
- Training and Development and Appraisals
- Unemployment, Leisure in
- Veal, Tony (see Leisure Life-Style; Leisure Studies)
- Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
- Violence
- Video Games see Digital Gaming
- Virtual Leisure
- Volunteers and Volunteering
- Weber, Max (see Asceticism; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Leisure as a Value-Sphere; McDonaldization; Status; Work Ethic)
- Weisbrod's Hypotheses
- Well-being
- Women's Leisure
- Work Ethic
- Work-Leisure
- Youth
- Zombie Categories
- Zones
Recent Product Reviews:
a welcome backup for students ( and tutors alike) to confirm their understanding of key terms and concepts in this field. Hyperlinks for further reading would have been useful . From our sports studies perspective a sister volume dedicated to sport alone would be especially welcome.
Mr Ian ROBERTS, Sport, Physical Education & Leisure, University of St Mark & St John
A great addition to the honours (4th year) students course.
Miss Engela Van der klashorst, biokinetics, sport and recreation, University of Pretoria
This text is both accessible and engaging and offers a fundamental insight to the key concepts, terms and theories of studying leisure.
Dr Sam Elkington, Tourism,Leisure & Human Resource Manag, Bedfordshire University
Very useful, providing ready access to current thinking in leisure studies.
Dr Ali Bakir, Business & Management, Bucks New University
It is a useful book for beginners, an ideal guide for 1st year undergraduates studying sports and leisure and tourism programmes.
Dr Gunjan Saxena, Marketing and Business Strategy, Hull University