Key Concepts in Leisure Studies

Informationen zum Autor David Harris is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth Klappentext `This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Zusammenfassung `This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Adding Leisure Values Articulation Authenticity Bodies Cultural Capital Disciplinary Apparatuses Disneyfication Ecstasy Education as Leisure Effects Analysis Escape Ethnography Fantasy Figurationalism Food Functionalism Gazes Gender Gramscianism Heritage Hyperreality Identities Ideology Illegal Leisure Leisure Policy McDonaldization Narratives Pleasures Pornography Postmodernism Posts Race and Leisure Semiotics Shopping Social Class Virtual Leisure Visitor Interpretation Work-Leisure Relationships Youth Subcultures

Product details

• Authors: David E Harris, David E. Harris
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2004
• EAN: 9780761970576
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-7057-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Key Concepts (Sage); Sage Key Concepts Series; Key Concepts (Sage)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Leisure Studies