Capitalism And Leisure Theory

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317821211
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Leisure Theory (Routledge Revivals) written by Chris Rojek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification. The writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud are used to locate the question of leisure in more mainstream social theory. This interesting reissue will be of particular value to students of sociology and leisure studies, and those with an interest in the relationship between leisure and power.

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : Tavistock Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780422790703
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Leisure Theory written by Chris Rojek and published by Tavistock Publications. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Rojek
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609655
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decentring Leisure written by Chris Rojek and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-03-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional ′centring′ of leisure, on ′escape′, ′freedom′ and ′choice′. Revealing how leisure practices have responded to living in a risk society, he shows that ′free′ time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.

Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505112
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure Theory written by C. Rojek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure. It demonstrates how power relations influence leisure choices and introduces students to the primary functions and regulative mechanisms of leisure, providing a thought provoking account of the central problems confronting students of leisure today. Written with the needs of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in mind, the book will quickly be recognized as the bible for Leisure Theory.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496032706
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is an economic treatise and detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social-class consumerism, which proposes that the social strata and the division of labor of the feudal period continued into the modern era. The lords of the manor employed themselves in the economically useless practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, whilst the middle and lower classes were employed in the industrial occupations that support the whole of society; economically wasteful activities are those activities that do not contribute to the economy or to the material productivity required for the fruitful functioning of society. Veblen's analyses of business cycles and prices, and of the emergent technocratic division of labor by speciality (scientists, engineers, technologists) at the beginning of the 20th century proved to be accurate predictions of the nature of an industrial society. Background and reception The Theory of the Leisure Class was based on a trio of articles published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1898, and contained most of the major themes Veblen would develop in his later works. Upon its publication, one reviewer opined that the book "requires no other commendation for its scholarly performance than that which a casual reading of the work readily inspires", while William Dean Howells devoted two long reviews to it, and overnight the book became the vade mecum of the intelligentsia of the day: as an eminent sociologist told Veblen, "It fluttered the dovecotes of the East." This immediate success also came unexpectedly, including to Veblen. Criticism About author, book, and thesis of The Theory of the Leisure Class, the American intellectual H. L. Mencken said: Do I enjoy a decent bath because I know that John Smith cannot afford one-or because I delight in being clean? Do I admire Beethoven's Fifth Symphony because it is incomprehensible to Congressmen and Methodists-or because I genuinely love music? Do I prefer terrapin à la Maryland to fried liver, because plowhands must put up with the liver-or because the terrapin is intrinsically a more charming dose? - Mencken , Professor Veblen, Prejudices, First Series, 1919 Nonetheless, despite such disagreement, Mencken considered the game of golf to be a conspicuous leisure activity, of no useful function. Attempts at a definitive denotation of the theory of conspicuous consumption have been criticised as "élitist", most notably the pertinent works of Herbert Marcuse, wherein a group of hyper-educated people is empowered to define what items of consumption become luxury commodities. Robert Heilbroner said that, although valid for their late 19th-century time (the Gilded Age of the 1890s), the economic and sociological theories of Thorstein Veblen have limited, contemporary application, because the studies are specific to the societies of the U.S. and the city of Chicago.

Author : Betsy Wearing
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026003
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure and Feminist Theory written by Betsy Wearing and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-12-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging and challenging, this book offers a host of new insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality. Providing a critical introduction to the leading positions in leisure theory, Betsy Wearing guides the reader through their strengths and weaknesses from a feminist perspective. This book draws attention to the various leisure experiences that women encounter and construct in their everyday lives and the meanings that these experiences have for them. Her perspective takes into account such poststructuralist ideas as multiple subjectivities of women and multiple femininities; the possibilities of resistance to male dominance in leisure; the potential through leisure of rewriting masculine and feminine scripts; and leisure as a site of struggle to challenge hegemonic masculinity.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3955079872
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veblen's study indicts the nineteenth-century socio-economic system which based class status on the accumulation of material wealth. More than a century after its original publication, his work still is of surprisingly high relevance, since it casts an astonishingly contemporary and often very satirical eye on American economics and society. Originally released in 1899, "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is considered as the first detailed critique of consumerism.

Author : Karl Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137564792
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory written by Karl Spracklen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of socio-cultural theories from thinkers such as Adorno, Bauman, Weber and Marx. Drawing on contributions from experts in leisure studies from around the world, the four sections cover: traditional theories of leisure; rational theories of leisure; structural theories of leisure; and post-structural theories of leisure. The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory is essential reading for students and scholars working in leisure studies, social theory as well as those working on the problem of leisure in the wider humanities and social sciences.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decentring Leisure written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional |centring' of leisure, on |escape', |freedom' and |choice'. He describes the relations between capitalism and leisure, the meaning of free time for workers in a capitalist system, and the gendered nature of leisure. He then discusses the social construction of leisure under modernity and the main competing arguments. Finally he examines postmodernity. Revealing how leisure practices have responded to living in a risk society, he shows that |free' time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.

Author : C. Rojek
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403905697
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leisure Theory written by C. Rojek and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure. It demonstrates how power relations influence leisure choices and introduces students to the primary functions and regulative mechanisms of leisure, providing a thought provoking account of the central problems confronting students of leisure today. Written with the needs of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in mind, the book will quickly be recognized as the bible for Leisure Theory.