Overview
- Discusses the management of everyday life, enabling readers to expand on the stance of the early theorists in leisure studies including Stan Parker, Max Kaplan, and Joffre Dumazedier
- Contextualises the research within the serious leisure perspective, leisure activities, leisure experience, and the methodological basis of studying everyday life
- Analyses the ways in which work, leisure, and the non-work obligations are interrelated
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and “chore” activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.
Drawing on the sociology of everyday life, Stebbins puts forward the notion of Pondering Everyday Life (PEA), a thinking process/activity in which we routinely understand, coordinate, organize, remember, and compare our involvements in work, leisure, and non-work obligations. This perspective demonstrates how the interrelation between these three domains helps bring meaning and continuity to everyday life. As a micro- and meso-level conception that takes into account social, cultural and historic context, Stebbins contemplates how and what PEA can tell us about an individual’s view of their own life.
Pondering Everyday Life will be of interest to students and scholars across leisure studies, social psychology, and the sociology of leisure and work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pondering Everyday Life
Book Subtitle: Coordination, Continuity, and Comparison
Authors: Robert A. Stebbins
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35922-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35921-8Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35924-9Published: 30 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35922-5Published: 02 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 89
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Work