Robert A. Stebbins Forfatter
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Work and Leisure in the Middle East: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Community involvement and leisure are rarely mentioned in mass media coverage of the Middle East and North Africa
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Planning Your Time in Retirement: How to Cultivate a Leisure Lifestyle to Suit Your Needs and Interests (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As the greying of our population continues, retirees are enjoying more and more healthy years of retirement, and those years can be productive, enjoyable, and rewarding. This work speaks to those retirees who wish to enjoy their golden years doing things they enjoy.
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Between Work and Leisure: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing work, where the... Læs mere
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Leisure Activities in Context: A Micro-Macro/Agency-Structure Interpretation of Leisure (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued.
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The Idea of Leisure: First Principles (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A range of thinkers in philosophy, religion, and the social sciences have argued that thanks to science, technology, and the organization of society, the human condition has improved and will continue to do so
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Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This work looks into how, why, and when people pursue things in life that they desire, those that make their existence attractive and worth living
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Pondering Everyday Life: Coordination, Continuity, and Comparison (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on the sociology of everyday life, Stebbins puts forward the notion of Pondering Everyday Life (PEA), a thinking process/activity in which we routinely understand, coordinate, organize, remember, and compare our involvements in work, leisure, and non-work obligations.
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Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering... Læs mere
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Leisure’s Legacy: Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Leisure and Positive Psychology: Linking Activities with Positiveness (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as flow, fulfilment, altruism, well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
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