In ways set out in this book, devotee work roots in serious leisure, even while many participants in the latter have no desire to pursue the former.

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.

... occupational devotion, most notably law and medicine (for a review see Macdonald, 1995, chap. 1). Still, they have ... (Stebbins, 2001b), exploration is a long process, consisting of a good number of concatenated, detailed studies ...

An Introduction Sam Elkington, Robert Stebbins. engendering occupational devotion include old clocks and antique furniture as well as fine glass, china and crockery. There is also a business in restoring paintings. This work, which calls ...

Coordination, Continuity, and Comparison Robert A. Stebbins. But, alas, occupational devotion is a neologism, necessitated partly by the fact that workaholism, as a term, has through careless lay usage become corrupted and distorted to ...

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

This book provides a guide—the serious leisure perspective—for exploring these activities and choosing those that fit one’s tastes, aptitudes, and abilities.

First Principles Robert A. Stebbins. Machlowitz ( 1980 ) pioneered this concept , in an attempt to help explain why a ... occupational devotion . Thus the modern work ethic - most generally put that hard work is good - is manifested ...

This book is the first of offer a comprehensive introduction to the Serious Leisure Perspective, from fundamental principles and key concepts to in-depth and wide-ranging case studies of serious leisure pursuits.