Bramham, Peter

Introduction to leisure studies: principles and practice / Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg - London: Sage Publications, 2014. - xiii, 226 p.

Chapter 1. Defining leisure and leisure studies --
chapter 2. Studying and measuring leisure --
chapter 3. Time, history and leisure --
chapter 4. Caution : children at play --
chapter 5. Growing up and getting out --
chapter 6. Staying in and settling down --
chapter 7. Divided leisure : leisure and social class --
chapter 8. Turning points --
chapter 9. Home alone : demography and ageing --
chapter 10. Leisure and the future.

A student-friendly introduction to the broad field of leisure studies, encouraging students to engage in reflexive analysis of their own common sense understandings of contemporary leisure practices.

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Leisure -- Sociological aspects.
Recreation -- Sociological aspects.

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