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Informationen zum Autor Tony Blackshaw is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport & Leisure at Sheffield Hallam University and author of The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies (SAGE, 2009) and Zygmunt Bauman (Routledge 'Key Sociologists', 2005) Garry Crawford is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford. His research and teaching focus primarily upon audiences, media and consumer patterns, and most specifically, sport fans and video gamers. He has published numerous papers and books, including "Consuming Sport" (2004) and "Video Gamers" (2012). Garry is Director of the University of Salford Digital Cluster, Publications Director of the British Sociological Association, and review editor for Cultural Sociology. Klappentext What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field? 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. The Book: . Provides an unprecedented critical survey of the field . Offers students authoritative, comprehensive accounts of the basic concepts and leading figures . Provides students with core resources to write essays and pass exams Written by teachers experienced with the needs of undergraduates and postgraduates in the field, the book will be quickly recognized as a vital asset in making sense of Leisure Studies. Zusammenfassung The first full length dictionary of leisure studies! offering a critical survey of this increasingly popular and interdisciplinary field and incisive overviews of the key figures whose work exercises the most powerful influence on leisure studies today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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<...
