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.

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

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.

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 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.

By means of a lengthy literature review, this book sets out the theoretical and empirical contributions of the serious leisure perspective to understanding volunteer motivation. This second approach began more than 40 years ago.

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

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.