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Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure.

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.

What happens after you leave the field? In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address these and other questions, bring fieldwork alive for the reader and provide invaluable advice for those entering the field.

This volume will be of interest to those interested in work and occupations, as well as those interested in the quality of their own lives.

Robert Stebbins addresses an area of social science that receives scant attention: exploration as a methodological process. The author emphasises its importance then leads the reader through the process in a highly readable way.

This book provides a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, where they fit in social theory.

Achievement meritorious enough to generate discussion covers considerable territory. This book concentrates on one part of it: that inhabited by scholars and politicians.

This book, written by an established authority in the field, shines a light on the significance of this ‘third space’ in our lives and offers a guide to finding contentment in discontentment.

This short book discusses the relatively new concept of project-based leisure in leisure research, and relates it to individual and community well-being and quality of life.