This is part of the reader’s social world, which is further comprised of book clubs, bookstores, Amazon.com, censorship, author public readings, and more.

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 examines conditions that attract people to their work in this profound way, and the many exceptional values and intrinsic rewards they realize there.

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.

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

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 book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.

The Idea of Leisure is based on the assumption that leisure also fits into the social order, and it provides a singular vector by which to measure progress, even though it is rarely mentioned in writings about the idea of progress.