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First published in 1987. Following an introductory chapter on the
nature of theory and the outline of the book, there are eight
chapters on the explanatory approaches, or models, employed in this
dialectical analysis of the leisure industry. These models focus on
particular elements of leisure: experience, decision, development,
identities, interaction, institutions, political forces, and human
definitions. With a new preface to the re-issue by the author, this
title will be of great interest to students of Sociology and
Leisure Studies.
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.
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.
Ecotoxicology is the science that seeks to predict the impacts of
chemi cals upon ecosystems. This involves describing and predicting
ecological changes ensuing from a variety of human activities that
involve release of xenobiotic and other chemicals to the
environment. A fundamental principle of ecotoxicology is embodied
in the notion of change. Ecosystems themselves are constantly
changing due to natural processes, and it is a challenge to
distinguish the effects of anthropogenic activities against this
background of fluctuations in the natural world. With the
frustratingly large, diverse, and ever-emerging sphere of envi
ronmental problems that ecotoxicology must address, the approaches
to individual problems also must vary. In part, as a consequence,
there is no established protocol for application of the science to
environmental prob lem-solving. The conceptual and methodological
bases for ecotoxicology are, how ever, in their infancy, and thus
still growing with new experiences. In deed, the only robust
generalization for research on different ecosystems and different
chemical stresses seems to be a recognition of the necessity of an
ecosystem perspective as focus for assessment. This ecosystem basis
for ecotoxicology was the major theme of a previous pUblication by
the Ecosystems Research Center at Cornell University, a special
issue of Environmental Management (Levin et al. 1984). With that
effort, we also recognized an additional necessity: there should be
a continued develop ment of methods and expanded recognition of
issues for ecotoxicology and for the associated endeavor of
environmental management."
First published in 1987. Following an introductory chapter on the
nature of theory and the outline of the book, there are eight
chapters on the explanatory approaches, or models, employed in this
dialectical analysis of the leisure industry. These models focus on
particular elements of leisure: experience, decision, development,
identities, interaction, institutions, political forces, and human
definitions. With a new preface to the re-issue by the author, this
title will be of great interest to students of Sociology and
Leisure Studies.
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