The concepts of leisure and recreation have been studied at great length over the past 50
years. In this study, the authors explore whether a unified theory of leisure/recreation is …

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the
sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert …

Within this commentary, we (the current Managing Editors) offer what we might term a
'directional purview'for the scholarly consideration of leisure. The very fact that each of the …

Research into serious leisure has grown since the 1980s. Despite the popularity of the
serious leisure perspective, some embedded concepts remain conceptually …

The aim of this special issue is to encourage critical theoretical and methodological
reflection on the broad topic of leisure and wellbeing. Ideas about wellbeing have come to …

This article examines the epistemological claims made by four paradigms used to study
leisure meanings: behaviorism, cognitivism, individual constructivism, and social …

Researchers who study women's leisure in the 1990s are moving into a discourse about the
inability and inadequacy of determining that leisure is the same for all women or that “one …

In 1983, Leisure Identities and Interactions was published in an attempt to provide an
alternative to structure-functional sociological premises, theory, and research methods. This …

Using data collected from US and Greek respondents, we tested an alternate
conceptualization of enduring leisure involvement where identity was considered a key …