Tourism and marketing — a symbiotic relationship?

Leisure has been widely examined within the context of social science theory. This article adopts a broad approach, examining a range of social science disciplines and applying them to specific phenomena located within the leisure field, namely, volunteers and volunteering in leisure settings. In a disciplinary sense, the sociological view focuses upon the conceptualisation of volunteering as leisure, the psychological view seeks to understand motivations driving volunteering, while the perspective of economists supplements these standpoints in terms of why people volunteer and further examines the value of volunteer contributions. Comparative analysis of the perspectives enunciated within these key disciplines provides for a fuller picture of the status of research relating to leisure volunteers and volunteering. Accordingly, this article aims to identify gaps in current knowledge, draws out conclusions for an improved understanding of this area as well as to enhance comprehension of disciplinary contrib...

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Volunteers and volunteering in leisure : social science perspectives

This study applies an alternative analytical approach to married couples' leisure during the parental stage of their life cycle Leisure is viewed as one of the means through which the parental rol

The leisure component of the parental role.

IntroductionThe incursion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into everyday life is transforming leisure practices (Bryce, 2001) not only by offering new leisure options but also by changing how, when, and where leisure is experienced (Boczkowski, 2010). In our research we analyse how the leisure experience is affected by the fact that ICTs have destabilized leisure activities in relation to place and time. This transformation represents an opportunity to re-analyse the nature of leisure and research conducted to date in order to define the nature of leisure activities from both the positivist and interpretive/constructivist paradigms and to consider the implications for the study of leisure.Research into the nature of leisure has attempted to identify the unique properties of leisure activities in opposition to paid-work activities. To this end, researchers have studied sets of leisure and paid-work activities performed in their usual contexts in order to distinguish between the properties of leisure and paid-work activities, and have then used these properties to classify other activities (Kelly, 1978; Neulinger, 1974/1981; Shaw, 1985; Tinsley, Hinson, Tinsley, & Holt, 1993). This approach, characteristic of the natural sciences, has produced lists of properties of leisure that are largely shared with paid-work activities. Note that, as proposed by Robinson and Godbey (2000), we distinguish between work in exchange for a wage or salary (i.e., paid work), and homemaker, care, and other activities, differentiated from leisure activities at home but performed in the home during free time, which we call unpaid work.Constructivist/interpretive research has emphasized the role of the context in which individuals interact as they construct the meanings they attach to leisure or paid-work activities. In general, research has focused on the production of meanings associated with certain face-to-face activities, demonstrating (1) that activities may change in meaning when context (space and time) is changed (Dupuis, 2000; Dupuis & Smale, 2000), and (2) that individuals may construct different meanings regarding the same activity (Churchill, Clark, Prochaska-Cue, Creswell, & Ontai-Grzebik, 2007).ICTs offer an opportunity to investigate the production of meanings associated with leisure and paid-work experiences, and not just when the leisure and paid-work activities take place at home or at the work place, and during free or work time, respectively, but especially when these activities invade other spaces and times; for instance, when a leisure activity is engaged in during working hours in the work space or when a paid-work activity is performed in a person's free time at home. Thus, using the words of Nippert-Eng (1996), the digital technologies make it possible to construct a more integrative vision of job and home. This social transformation suggests that we need to explore anew the production of meanings associated with concepts that have traditionally organized our lives. Digital leisure adds a new complexity to questions regarding the nature of leisure. How do people assign meanings to leisure activities performed outside of their usual context? How do people attach meaning to their leisure activities when the typical spaces of before no longer have boundaries?To try and answer these questions, in this research we draw on interpretive leisure studies and on political-economic theories regarding the post-modern society shaped by the digital technologies. Concretely we aim to contrast how people assign meaning to leisure and paid-work activities undertaken in the usual spaces and times and performed in more unusual spaces and times. Finally we discuss the implications of digital leisure for individuals living in society today.Conceptual FrameworkFrom the outset, leisure studies have sought to delimit the knowledge domain for leisure by marking it as distinct from, and opposite to, paid work (Neulinger, 1974/1981; Soule, 1957). …

The nature of leisure revisited: an interpretation of digital leisure.

Relation between Leisure and Career Development of College Students

Some of the major theoretical approaches to the study of the work-leisure relationship are examined. Theoretical conceptualization is confronted with empirical findings and some avenues for further research are suggested. The first section maps some of the major approaches taken in the study of the work-leisure relationship in the social science literature. The second section focuses on the central issue in the debate on the work-leisure relationship, namely, the effects of the structure (content) of work and work-related attitudes on leisure behaviour and leisure-related attitudes. The third section examines empirical evidence collected by social scientists studying the work-leisure relationship. The fourth section attempts to answer the question of why social science research on the work-leisure relationship has produced, thus far, few conclusive and statistically significant findings. The final section summarizes the discussion and suggests certain research strategies for future sociological and socio-...

Work-leisure relationships from a sociological and social psychological perspective

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Work-leisure relationships from a sociological and social psychological perspective