Leisure Identities and Interactions

Kelly, John R.

ISBN 10: 0043011500 / ISBN 13: 9780043011508

Published by George Allen & Unwin, 1983

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Hard Cover -- Good -- Other than a few sentences underlined, book is tight with light wear -- Glossy, cover no dust jacket if issued -- 205 pages with index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leisure Identities and Interactions
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0043011500
• ISBN 13: 9780043011508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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 course, but also as a social context in which we work out the identities that express who we really want to be. His focus is on the kinds of leisure that are both most common and most significant face-to-face encounters, family interaction, and episodes found in the midst of our roles and routines. Varieties of leisure styles are found to be developed out of available opportunities and in relation to cultural values, but also are chosen to express and negotiate our self-definitions. Leisure is both social and existential and can best be understood in the dialectic of role expectations and decision. Kelly utilizes symbolic interaction, interpretive, and dramaturgical metaphors to develop a different sociology of leisure one that brings together the concepts of role and identity. Expressive identities and intimate communities are as essential to leisure as they are to life.