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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"serious leisure"”.
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Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
… approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. Significant contributions were made toward understanding the use of purchased goods and services in leisure activities, the growing phenomenon of serious leisure and …
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Understanding Parental Involvement in Youth Sports Through the Concept of Serious Leisure
1 PDF file (108 leaves)
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Serious leisure as a catalyst to community development as defined by community engagement
1 PDF file (xiii, 205 pages)
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An exploration of serious leisure types, flow and successful aging in later life
This study examined how different types of serious leisure activity are associated with experiencing flow and successful aging. Older adults ages 60 and over participated in this study and participants were recruited from senior related programs in the Champaign County area. In all, 162 surveys …
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Are Rock Climbers Crunchy? : Serious Leisure, Place Attachment and Environmental Concern in the Shawangunks
… by examining the effect that level of leisure participation, mediated by place attachment, had on an individual’s level of environmental concern. A questionnaire comprised of three individual measures of serious leisure, place attachment and environmental concern was distributed to rock …
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From canter to cantor: Negotiating constraints, and the perceptions of elitism in serious leisure pursuits : The experiences of a high performing athlete and artist
Everyone experiences leisure differently but, for people who excel in a chosen field, a hobby can become a serious goal-oriented leisure pursuit. Many talented people, however, fail to reach their leisure goals due to constraints. This study explored individual life experiences of serious leisure …
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Exploring the relationship between college students' music participation and their intent to continue after college
… in college and beyond, their inclination for a leisure career in music after they leave college, and what they envision as obstacles to future participation. The Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) was the basis for a survey used to collect data on musical participation in regards to …
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Grab your fork: a netnographic study of a foodie blog and its community.
… themes of foodism and food blogging as a form of Serious Leisure. Helen Yee is a foodie whose intense interest in food and eating is so strong that she writes a blog, called Grab Your Fork, with almost daily posts on the food which she has eaten. This “citizen journalism” (Bruns, 2007) takes her …
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Looking Through the Trees: An Anthropologist, a Museum, and the Sasquatch
… through the ideas of Outsider Art and serious leisure. By evaluating the processes, exhibits, and procedures of the Sasquatch Outpost a clearer picture of current amateur museum practices can be drawn.</p>
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The role of music-making in the identity construction of members of an adult community concert band
… salience hierarchies. Using Stebbins’ theory of serious leisure as a framework, findings suggested that participants were amateurs that engage in a serious leisure activity that for some had become equivalent to a career. A secondary purpose of this study was to explore the connection between the …
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The real-world implications of an imaginary world: A netnography of a Harry Potter based virtual community (Hogwarts Running Club)
… Sense of Community (McMillan & Chavis, 1986), Serious Leisure (Stebbins, 2007; 2012), and benefits and motivations each serve as the focus of a manuscript where implications for research and application have been discussed.
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Assessing the impact of a public library's print collection: a case study of two public libraries in Cape Town
… The focus of the survey and interviews was the leisure reading activities of the participants. The results describe both the patterns of library use and reading behaviour, as well as the impact of using the print collection on the participants. While the results showed that taste in reading …
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The movement of Argentine Tango: an ethnography of improvisation and transnationalism
… outcomes.<br/><br/>The first journey follows the serious leisure career of aspiring tango dancers. The sensoriality and the emotionality of the learning process of dancing is revealed through experiences of tango students and autoethnographic material. Tango is (re)produced in the process of …
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"Life is good. Life is what you make it" The significance of a third place: an ethnography of Masters swimming.
… from the nature of the study which centred on leisure experiences and active participation of older swimmers. In order to explore both the structures and interactions within their cultural context an ethnographic design was applied. This allowed for the collection of extremely rich data. A …
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I Play For Togetherness: Impacts of Audio-Visual Asynchrony on Feelings of Social Closeness in Adult Community Wind Band Musicians
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the effects of audio-visual asynchrony on feelings of social closeness in adult community band musicians. This study is situated within the fields of music cognition and sociology and explores how changes to the cognitive load of a performing musician …