By Chris Rojek (eds.)
A choice of serious essays which reject the assumptions that rest family members are kinfolk of freedom, self choice, existence delight and progress. The essays examine strength and coverage matters in relaxation kin and try and produce a severe sociology of the subject.
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So leisure studies make few if any references to the influential typology of value systems and social sources contained in F. Parkin (1971) Class Inequality and Political Order, London, MacGibbon & Kee, even though this was published in the same sociology series as S. Parker (1971) The Future of Work and Leisure, London, MacGibbon & Kee, a basic text of leisure studies. Deem, op. , p. 17. , p. 19. , pp. 135-7 and 149. H. F. Moorhouse 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Parker (1983) p. 11. Parker's ideal is the 'artist' or 'craftsman' whose activities are both 'work' and 'leisure' as they 'take off' into some 'state of flow'. He writes from the perspective of someone 'lucky enough' to be employed doing what he would choose to do anyway. Which is to say that leisure studies is shot through with the same highly romantic notion of 'the whole man' which has bedevilled analysis in industrial sociology recently. E. Batstone, I. Boraston and S. Frenkel (1977) Shop Stewards in Action, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, pp.
Gerth and C. ) From Max Weber, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 180-95. Roberts puts some stress on 'lifestyle' as important for the study of leisure, but this tends to be seen as a set of 'tastes' the individual arrives at independently from all the good things on offer. e. the power relations of consumer culture, are characteristically, downplayed, if not ignored. M. Sobel (1981) Lifestyle and Social Structure, New York, Academic Press, p. 2. J. Barbalet (1986) 'The Limitation of Class Theory and the Disappearance of Status', Sociology XX, pp.
