Leisure Identities and Interactions

First published in 1983. Leisure has too often been approached as a set of activities that people do when everything important has been completed. This text provides a different analysis demonstrating the centrality of leisure to human development and to important relationships.

John R. Kelly

Preface; 1. Meanings of Leisure: An Introduction; Part One: Styles of Leisure: Variety and Meaning; 2. Variations in Leisure Styles 3. Life Course Changes 4. Personal and Social Identities; Part Two: Social Contexts of Leisure; 5. Leisure and the Family 6. Face-to-Face Interaction 7. Leisure Planning and Provision 8. Leisure Interaction and the Social Dialectic; Index