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1 online resource (281 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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International Library of Sociology
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International library of sociology.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Preface; Work and Leisure; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Western Society Faces Leisure; Leisure's Ambiguous Position; Our Industrial Culture; Globality of Urbanism; Security and Accumulation; Mobility and Integration; Temporal Implications; Mass Organizations; Individualism and Authority; Social Class in Western Society; Summary; 2. The Work-Leisure Dichotomy; By the Sweat of the Brovv; The Motives for Work; Work Competition and Leisure; Looking Closer at Leisure; The Functions of Leisure; Leisure and Non-work Obligations; Where Recreation Comes in; Play and Amusement. |
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Idleness and UnemploymentSummary; 3. Some Dimensions of Time; The Time-investment Cult; The New Time Awarenes; The Coming of Clocks; Time, Work and Tempo; Money Values and Time; Time, Money and Leisur; Work and Leisure in Lockstep; Habitual Time-usePattern; Tradition and Time-use Pattern; Of Man'sTotal Time; Summary; 4. The Provoking Gift of Leisure; Leisure, the Uninvited; Leisure Must be Earned; The Do-something Complex; Protest Against Passivity; Culture and Mediocrity; 'Spectatoritis' or Participation; On Viewing with Alarm; Ambiguities of Leisure; New Thinking about Leisure; Summary. |
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5. Some Pertinent Aspects of LeisureLeisure as Consumer Spending; Involvementsin Leisure Spending; Time Given to Leisure; Leisure for Wives and Mother; Holidays and Vacations; The Conventional Vacation; Leisure Planning and Preferences; Commercial Amusement; Leisure and the Sexes; Alcohol and Leisure; Reading, Highand Low; Summary; 6. Youth and the Life Cycle; When Play is Tolerated; Play and Social Discipline; The Educational Function; Educationfor Work and Leisure; The Distant Goal; Work Comes to the Rescue; Work-as the Young Find it; Are New Work Values Needed; Where the Fun Comes in. |
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Adaptation and ConformitySummary; 7. Active Years of the Life Cycle; Family in the Life Cycle; Social Class and Occupation; Pursuits of Status and Happiness; Social Mobility and Display; Using Leisure at Home; Fashion and Zestful Living; Domestic Accumulations; The Seeming Unimportance of Things; Non-typical Families and Household; When Wives also Work; Spending and Saving; Summary; 8. With Time on Their Hands; A Man and His Worth; What Retirement Means; Old-age in Germany; Retirement and Loneliness; From Loneliness to Loneliness; With Wheels to Ride on; The Old and their Housing. |
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Old Age in GermanyAge and Life Enjoyment; Summary; 9. How Men Manage Their Behaviour; Conformity and Sociality; The Ordering Influence of Work; Culture and the Work Place; The Disciplines of Leisure; Conformity and the Social Game; Keeping the Hands Busy; Unrest, Leisure and Idlenes; Small-group Vitality; Formal Associations and Groups; Associations for the Common Good; Public Service in Work and Leisure; Whatgoes on the Record; Summary; 10. Time-Use Trends and Prospects; What the Future may Hold; Speaking of Automation; On Knowing What to Fear; Uses of Atomic Energy. |
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Of Man's Work and Security. |
| Summary |
First published in 1998. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Leisure.
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Leisure. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anderson, Nels. Work & Leisure Ils 166. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 9780415176941 |
| ISBN |
9781136255977 (electronic book) |
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1136255974 (electronic book) |
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