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Commodification and consciousness: An initial study
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In this article, interviews with 44 adults examine the relationship of consumption and purchasing things to favourite activities, travel, and "good times" as well as shopping as leisure, finding that consumption is instrumental to activity engagement and social dimensions for most leisure.Abstract:
Critical theory has focused on the theme of the commodification of leisure. Leisure is defined as a market-mediated instrument of control that binds workers to an alienated production process. The evidence offered by proponents of the critique is mostly indirect and often mixed. In an exploratory study, interviews with 44 adults examine the relationship of consumption and purchasing things to favourite activities, travel, and ‘good times’ as well as shopping as leisure. In general, consumption is found to be instrumental to activity engagement and social dimensions for most leisure. Privatization is proposed as an alternative model for contemporary leisure styles.read more
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"We're Gators...Not Just Gator Fans": Serious Leisure and University of Florida Football.
TL;DR: The concept of serious leisure (Stebbins, 1979; 1992) was used to examine the meanings, rituals, and practices associated with being a University of Florida Football fan as discussed by the authors.
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The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain.
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If it weren‘t for my hobby, I'd have a life: dog sports, serious leisure, and boundary negotiations
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that dog sports represent a "culture of commitment" in serious leisure, as elaborated through Tomlinson's 'culture-of-commitment' and found that for hobbyists, involvement shapes such life realms as how time is used, how money is spent, how kin are defined, and h...
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Dereifying family leisure: An examination of women's and men's everyday experiences and perceptions of family time
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the time that 46 families spent in family activities by examining how much of this time was work and how much was leisure from the parents' viewpoint.
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Compensatory consumption: why women go shopping when they’re fed up and other stories
TL;DR: The role and experience of compensatory consumption in women's lives is explored in this article, where a feminist perspective is used to explore the women's lived experiences of compensatory consumption.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
TL;DR: The Pecuniary standard of living is defined in this paper as "conspicuous leisure, conspicuous consumption, and higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture".
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Beyond boredom and anxiety
TL;DR: Theoretical models for enjoyment have been used in the 25th anniversary edition of the first edition of as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the rewards of car activities. But they do not consider the effects of flow deprivation.
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The Theory Of The Leisure Class
TL;DR: The Pecuniary standard of living is defined in this paper as "conspicuous leisure, conspicuous consumption, and higher learning as an expression of the pecuniary culture".
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