First published in 1983. Leisure has too often been approached as a
set of activities that people do when everything important has been
completed. This text provides a different analysis demonstrating
the centrality of leisure to human development and to important
relationships. In Leisure Identities and Interactions the author
analyses leisure in the context of role changes through the life
course, but also as a social context in which we work out the
identities that express who we really want to be. His focus is on
the kinds of leisure that are both most common and most significant
face-to-face encounters, family interaction, and episodes found in
the midst of our roles and routines. Varieties of leisure styles
are found to be developed out of available opportunities and in
relation to cultural values, but also are chosen to express and
negotiate our self-definitions. Leisure is both social and
existential and can best be understood in the dialectic of role
expectations and decision. Kelly utilizes symbolic interaction,
interpretive, and dramaturgical metaphors to develop a different
sociology of leisure one that brings together the concepts of role
and identity. Expressive identities and intimate communities are as
essential to leisure as they are to life.
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