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The sociology of leisure is an important part of most leisure and recreation management degree and leisure studies BTEC courses. This book is designed to provide essential material in an accessible form for students. It draws together 24 classic readings which provide comprehensive coverage of key conceptual debates in the sociology of leisure.
In a broad sweep from Central Europe to Ireland and from the Sixteenth to the early Nineteenth-century, this work puts the Jewish community and its rabbinic and 'lay' leaders at the centre of Jewish history. Of surpassing value is Kochan's treatment of the community not only as a religious but also as a political unit. It shows the community at grips with the Reformation and the introduction of the ghetto system in the Italian states. Thence to the great maritime centre of Venice, Amsterdam, Hamburg and London, under the dominance of the Sephardi exiles from Spain and Portugal; and also to the metropolitan centres of Prague, Vienna and Berlin and the liaison of their court-Jews with the Hapsburgs, Bourbons and Hohenzollerns. This was not achieved without severe tension inside the communities and, whilst eschewing the concept of class-struggle, Kochan's analysis of the clash of interests between the few wealthy and the multitude of poor Jews raises doubts about the whole notion of 'community'.
This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in
relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in
Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that
the Sixties - fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left
behind. In their leisure lives - whether drinking, reading, surfing
the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a
holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a
bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside - people seem to
enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are
they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been
relinquished?
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