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Associations of active commuting and leisure-time physical activity with perceived cognitive function and work ability among Finnish employed adults: a population-based study. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
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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, 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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New Leisure and Leisure Customization

World Leisure Journal, 2009
Abstract New leisure is any activity of recent invention undertaken in free time, in the sense that a number of people in a region, nation, or larger sociocultural unit have only lately taken it up as a pastime. The goal here is to examine the nature and import of new leisure activities.
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The Courage to Be Leisured [PDF]

open access: possibleSocial Forces, 1981
Many of man's most significant activities, the processes of creativity, invention, discovery, are ultimately based on a certain detached, playful attitude toward experience. Many of his most vital achievements, the results of these processes, could not occur in the absence of civilized reflection and purposeful daydreaming.
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The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business

2021
This chapter explores the shifting yet resilient meanings and motivations of participating in corporate outings for workers in twenty-first-century Japan. It centers on hostess clubs that show how spaces continue to represent both the culture of care and business relationships in corporate Japan and the mediation of gender ideologies for workers facing
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