Leisure and life-style : a comparative analysis of free time
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Leisure and life-style : a comparative analysis of free time
（Sage studies in international sociology, 38）
Sage, 1989
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Includes bibliographies and index
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The prolonged period of economic expansion after World War II and recent developments such as the growth of information technology, led to predictions of the imminent arrival of a new leisure society. The combination of rising wealth with free time created by technological advance was expected to heighten existing trends towards the dissemination of leisure and consumption throughout social classes and groups. In this international comparative analysis of contemporary leisure and lifestyles, the contributors show that the actual evolution of patterns of work and leisure is much more complex. The impact of economic recession in the early 1980s, and of continued crisis in many parts of the world, has accentuated differences in consumption and leisure within and between nations. Some groups have enforced free time through unemployment, underemployment or retirement; others have leisure time limited through pressures of work, yet have increased capacity for consumption. In analyzing the amount and use of free time in society, the authors shed light not only on leisure but also on the ways different societies are being reshaped by current economic pressures.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, K.Roberts and Anna Olszewska
- Poland - the impact of the crisis on leisure patterns, Anna Olsewska
- Hungary - more work, less leisure, Gyorgy Fukasz
- Great Britain - socio-economic polarization and the implications for leisure, K.Roberts
- Belgium - old trends, new contradictions, France Govaerts
- Brazil - a new cycle of modernization, Renato Requixa and Luiz Camargo
- Puerto Rico - consumerism as a way of life, Nelson Melendez
- Japan - Homo Ludens Japonicus, Sampei Koseki
- France - leisure sociology in the 1980s, Joffre Dumazedier
- the USA - modern times and the new solidarity, Phillip Bosserman
- international tourism resists the crisis, Marie-Francoise Lanfant.
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