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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