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Active leisure, passive leisure and health

Economics & Human Biology, 2021
Leisure consumption has been increasing in the United States since the 1960s. Over the same period, inactive lifestyles have contributed to adverse health outcomes. We propose a new way of categorizing leisure into groups based on the amount of physical exercise needed. Our results show that physically active leisure is a normal good whose demand rises
Soumyadip Roy, Peter F. Orazem
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Leisure for Leisure: Critical Essays.

Contemporary Sociology, 1990
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives on leisure: models of work, models of leisure, H.F.Moorhouse the figurational approach to leisure and sport, E.Dunning Sigmund Freud and the pursuit of pleasure, H.Ferguson Simmel and leisure, D. Frisby leisure and "the ruins of the bourgeois world", C.Rojek.
John Wilson, Chris Rojek
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Leisure Science

Computer, 2011
While it might seem otherwise to most individuals, we live in an age of leisure as much as we live in an age of information or industry or globalization.
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Leisure, contemplation and leisure education

Ethics and Education, 2006
I argue in defense of Aristotle's position that contemplation (theoria) is the proper use of at least some of one's leisure and that, consequently, leisure education must consist in teaching the inclination and capacity for contemplation. However, my position is somewhat more flexible than Aristotle's, in that I allow that there are other activities ...
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The interrelationship of leisure and play: play as leisure, leisure as play. Leisure studies in a global era

Annals of Leisure Research, 2016
Stebbins’ new book, The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play: Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play (2015) provides timely insight to further the scholarship of leisure, the serious leisure perspective...
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Digital Leisure and Communicative Leisure

2015
It is easy to turn to the Net to find out what it means to be alternative, to be a goth or a punk or a metaller. One can find Wikipedia and other forms of wiki pages discussing the history, the music and the fashions, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of pages set up by people to try to define this alternative subculture as they understand it ...
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The Demand for Leisure

Journal of Political Economy, 1971
Complementarity between leisure time and market recreation is estimated empirically by regressing the demand for leisure time of U.S. employees in the 1900-1961 period on the relative price of recreational goods and services, holding real income and the relative price of leisure time constant.
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