Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time

“A concise introduction to the concept of serious leisure . . . [this book] will stimulate interest in this woefully neglected area.” —Contemporary Sociology Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert A. Stebbins divides such activity into categories that together comprise what he calls the “serious leisure perspective.”