The Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies

by Tony Blackshaw

• ISBN13: 9781412919951
• ISBN10: 1412919959
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This is the first full length dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures, and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions.

Table of Contents

A and B Analysis

Abnormal Leisure

Acculturation

Action Analysis

Action Research

Addictions

Adorno, Theodor (see Critical Theory)

Aesthetics

Ageing and Leisure

Agency see Structure and Agency

Alienation

Amateur and Amateurism

Animal Rights

Anomie

Ansoff Matrix

Art (see Aesthetics; Community Leisure; Modernism; Postmodernism)

Asceticism

Assets, Liabilities and Capital

Audiences

Authenticity

Baudrillard, Jean

Bauman, Zygmunt

Binary Oppositions

Birmingham School, The

Blood Sports

Body/Bodies see Leisure Bodies

Bohemians

Boston Matrix

Bourdieu, Pierre

Branding, Brand Awareness and Brand Image

Budgeting

Bureaucracy

Business Environment

Capital (see Habitus, Field and Capital; Social Capital)

Capitalism

Carnivalesque

Castells, Manuel (see Network Society; Three Sector Model)

Casual Leisure (see Crafts and Craftsmanship; Serious Leisure; Consumption)

Catharsis and Cathexis

Celebrity

Civil Society

Civilizing Process (see Elias, Norbert)

Class

Class Consciousness (see False Consciousness)

Collective Consumption (see Three Sector Provision of Leisure)

Collecting/Collectors (see Hobbies)

Commodity Fetishism

Communication

Community

Community Action

Community Leisure

Comparative Method (or Comparative Analysis)

Compulsory Heterosexuality

Computer Games (see Digital Games)

Consumer Behaviour and Consumer Relationship Marketing

Consumer Culture (see Consumer Society)

Consumer Society

Consumption

Content Analysis

Conversational Analysis

Cool

Cost Accounting

Crafts and Craftsmanship

Crime (see Deviance)

Critical Theory

Cruising

Cultural Capital

Cultural Intermediaries

Cultural Omnivores

Culture

Cyberculture

Deadweight Expenditure

Decentring Leisure

Deconstruction

Deem, Rosemary (see Women's Leisure)

Demand

Demand for Health Model

Desire

Deviance

Digital Gaming

Dionysian Leisure

Discourses see Discursive Formations

Discursive Formations

Disneyization

Distinction

Dominant Ideology (see Ideology)

Double-entry bookkeeping

Dromology and Speed

Drugs see Addiction

Dunning, Eric (see Elias; Football Hooliganism; Mimesis; Rojek; Sport)

Economic Benefit of Hosting Major Sport Events

Economic Impact of Hosting Major Sport Events

Edgework

Elasticity

Elias, Norbert

Enjoyment and Fun (see Dionysian Leisure; Fantasy Leisure; Hedonism; Pleasure)

Enthusiasms (see Community Leisure; Crafts and Craftsmanship; Hobbies)

Environment (see Leisure and the Environment)

Ethics

Ethnography

Ethnomethodology

Event Management

Everyday Life

Extreme Leisure

False Consciousness

Fans

Fantasy Leisure

Fanzines

Fashion

Feminism

Figurations/Figurationalism (see Elias, Norbert)

Financial and Management Accounting

Financial Health and Ratio Analysis

Financial Statements

Focus groups

Flâneurs, Flâneurie and Psychogeography

Flow

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

Football Hooliganism

Foucault, Michel

Frankfurt School, The (see Critical Theory)

Free Time

Freud, Sigmund

Full Time Equivalent Jobs

Functionalism

Gambling

Game Theory

Gatekeepers

Gender (see Feminism and Women's Leisure)

Giddens, Anthony

Globalization

Goffman, Erving

Governmentality

Habitus, Field and Capital

Hall, Stuart (see Birmingham School)

Happiness

Hawthorne Effect (see Observations)

Hedonism

Hegemonic Masculinity (see Masculinity and Masculinities)

Hegemony

Heritage

Hexis (see Habitus)

Hobbies

Hoggart, Richard

Household Production Function Approach, The

Huizinga, Johan (1872-1945) (see Play)

Human Resource Management

Identity

Ideology

Income-Leisure Time Trade Off and Timing Dating

Individualization

Intertextuality

Interviews

'Into', the

Invisible Exports

Involvement and Detachment

Leisure

Leisure and the Environment

Leisure and the Life Course

Leisure as a Value-Sphere

Leisure Bodies

Leisure Class

Leisure Constraints (see Ageing and Leisure; Class; Racism and Leisure; Unemployment, Leisure in; Women's Leisure)

Leisure Education

Leisure Experience (see Happiness; Leisure Life-World; Pleasure)

Leisure, History of (see Asceticism; Leisure; Sport; Sportization; Work Ethic)

Leisure in the Community

Leisure Life-Style

Leisure Life-World

Leisure Marketing

Leisure, Philosophical Bases of (see Catharis and Cathexsis; Extreme Leisure; Happiness; Hedonism; Leisure; Mimesis; Pleasure)

Leisure Policy

Leisure Society

Leisure Studies

Life Course (see Leisure and the Life Course)

Life-Style (see Leisure Life-Style)

Liminality

Liquid Modernity

Management Styles

Market Positioning and Market Segmentation

Marketing (see Leisure Marketing)

Marketing Mix for the Leisure Industries

Marxism

Masculinity and Masculinities

Mass Culture (see Popular Culture)

Mass Media

Mass-Observation

McDonaldization

Methodology

Mimesis

Modernism

Modernity

Monopolistic competition

Moral Panics (see Folk Devils and Moral Panics)

Motivation

Multiplier Analysis

Neo-classical analysis

Neo-Marxism see Marxism

Neo-Tribes

Network Society

New Social Movements

Non-Participant Observation (see Observation)

Non-Place

Nostalgia

Observation (Participant and Non-Participant Observation)

Oral/Life History

Overworked American Thesis, The (see Schor, Juliet B)

Paradigms

Parker, Stanley (see Work-Leisure)

Participant Observation (see Observation)

Performativity

Pilot Study

Play

Play Ethic

Pleasure

Policy (see Leisure Policy)

Popular Culture

Postmodernism

Pornography

Postcolonialism see Acculturation

Postmodernism

Postmodernity

Power

Profit and Utility Maximisation

Public and Private Goods

Qualitative Research

Quality of Life see Well-being

Quality Systems

Quantitative Research

Queer Theory

Questionnaires

Racism and Leisure

Rational Recreation (see Recreation)

Recreation

Religion

Retirement, Leisure in (see Ageing and Leisure)

Risk Management

Risk Society

Roberts, K. (see Decentring Leisure; Leisure and the Life Course; Well-being; Youth)

Rojek, Chris

Sampling

Schor, Juliet B.

Self, The (see Identity)

Semiotics/Semiology

Serious Leisure

Sex

Sexual Exploitation

Sexuality (see Compulsory Heterosexuality and Masculinity and Masculinities and Queer Theory)

Shopping

Social Capital

Social Class see Class

Social Control

Social Network Analysis

Spectacle

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