Convenience is often defined as the quality of experience or free time. Spare time is time spent away from business, employment, job search, domestic work, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. From a research perspective, this approach has advantages that can be calculated and compared over time and place.
Comfort as an experience usually emphasizes the dimensions of freedom and perceived choice. This is done for "self-interest", for the quality of experience and involvement. Other classic definitions include Thorsten Veblen (1899) on "unproductive time consumption". Different disciplines have definitions that reflect their common problems: for example, sociology on social forces and context and psychology as conditions and mental and emotional states.
The study of leisure and recreational sociology is an academic discipline related to the study and analysis of leisure time. Recreation is different from leisure as it is a purposeful activity that includes a recreational experience in the context of an activity.
The difference between leisure time and unavoidable activity is not a rigidly defined activity, for example people sometimes do work-oriented tasks for fun as well as for long-term utility. Differences can also be drawn between leisure and free time. For example, Situationist International states that leisure is an illusion and rarely completely "free"; economic and social forces that spare time from individuals and sell them back to them as a commodity known as "leisure". Of course most people's recreational activities are not completely free choices and may be constrained by social pressures, for example people can be forced to spend time gardening with the need to follow the neighboring garden standards or go to parties due to social pressure.
The related concept is social recreation, which involves leisure activities in social settings, such as extracurricular activities, eg sports, clubs. Another related concept is family recreation. Relationships with others are usually a major factor in satisfaction and choice.
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History of leisure
Leisure historically is a privilege of the upper class. Opportunities for leisure come with more money, or organization, and less work time, increased dramatically in the mid to late 19th century, beginning in the United Kingdom and spreading to other rich countries in Europe. This spread also to the United States, although the country has a reputation in Europe because it provides less spare time despite its wealth. Immigrants to the United States found that they had to work harder than in Europe. Economists continue to investigate why Americans are working longer. In a recent book, Laurent Turcot argues that leisure time was not created in the 19th century but has been contaminated in the western world since the beginning of history.
Canada
In Canada, vacations in the country are linked to declining working hours and are shaped by moral values, and ethnic-religious and gender communities. In a cool country with long winter nights, and long summers in summer, favorite recreational activities include horse racing, team sports such as hockey, singalong, roller skating, and board games. Churches try to direct recreational activities, preaching against drinking and scheduling annual revivals and weekly club activities. In 1930 radio played a major role in uniting Canadians behind their local or regional hockey team. Coverage of play-by-play sports, especially ice hockey, absorbed fans are much more intense than newspaper accounts the next day. The countryside is mainly affected by sports coverage.
French
Comfort in the mid-19th century is no longer an individualistic activity. It's getting organized. In the French industrial city of Lille, with a population of 80,000 in 1858, a cabaret or a working-class bar of 1300, or one for every three homes. Lille counts 63 clubs drinking and singing, 37 clubs for card players, 23 for bowling, 13 for skittles, and 18 for archery. The churches also have their social organization. Each club has a long list of officers, and a busy schedule of banquets, festivals and competitions.
United Kingdom
Due to literacy, wealth, ease of travel, and a growing sense of community growing in the UK from the mid-19th century onwards, there is more time and interest in recreational activities of all kinds, in all classes.
Opportunities for recreational activities are increasing as real wages continue to increase and work hours continue to decline. In urban England, a nine-hour day is increasingly the norm; 1874 factory acts to limit the working day to 56.5 hours. Movement towards the eight-hour day. Furthermore, the annual vacation system routinely begins to work, starting with white-collar workers and moving to the working class. Around 200 seaside resorts emerged thanks to cheap hotels and cheap train fares, widespread banking holidays, and waning many religious bans on secular activities on Sunday.
In the late Victorian era, the leisure industry has appeared in all British cities, and the pattern was copied in Western Europe and North America. It provides scheduled entertainment with an appropriate length and convenient location at a bargain price. This includes sporting events, music halls, and popular theaters. In 1880 soccer was no longer the preservation of the social elite, as it attracted a large working class audience. The average gate was 5,000 in 1905, rising to 23,000 in 1913. It amounted to 6 million paying customers with a weekly turnover of £ 400,000. Sports in 1900 produced about three percent of the total gross national product in the UK. Sport professionalization is the norm, although some new activities reach an upper-class amateur audience, such as lawn tennis and golf. Women are now allowed in some sports, such as archery, tennis, badminton, and gymnastics.
Comfort is primarily male activity, with middle-class women being allowed into the suburbs. There are class differences with upscale clubs, and working class and middle class pubs. Heavy drinkers are down; there is more to bet on the results. Participation in sports and all sorts of recreational activities is increasing for the average English crowd, and their interest in spectator sports is increasing dramatically.
In the 1920s cinemas and radios drew all classes, ages, and genders in enormous numbers. The giant palace was built for large audiences who wanted to see Hollywood movies. In Liverpool, 40 percent of the population attend one of 69 theaters once a week; 25 percent went twice. The traditionalists complain about the American cultural invasion, but the permanent impact is small.
The English show greater interest in sports, and in greater variation, that of every competitor. They give a place pride for moral issues such as sportsmanship and fair play. Cricket became a symbol of the Imperial spirit throughout the Empire. Football proved very attractive to the urban working class, which introduced rowdy spectators to the sporting world. In some sports, there is significant controversy in the struggle for amateur purity especially in rugby and rowing. New games become popular almost overnight, including golf, tennis, cycling, and hockey. Women are much more likely to enter this sport than the established ones. Aristocracies and landlords, with their strict control over land rights, are predominantly hunting, shooting, fishing, and horse racing.
Cricket had become established among the upper classes of Britain in the 18th century, and was a major factor in sports competitions among the public schools. The army units around the Empire had time in their hands, and encouraged the locals to learn cricket so they could have some entertaining competition. Most of the Empire embraced cricket, with the exception of Canada. The cricket match (international) started in the 1870s; the most famous is between Australia and England for "The Ashes."
Reading
Along with literacy and free time after 1900, reading became a popular entertainment. The new addition of adult fiction doubled during the 1920s, reaching 2800 new books annually in 1935. The library tripled their stocks, and saw huge demand for new fiction. The dramatic innovation is a cheap novel, pioneered by Allen Lane (1902-70) at Penguin Books in 1935. The first title includes a novel by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie. They are sold cheaply (usually six pence) at cheap stores like Woolworth's. Penguins are aimed at an educated, middle-class "middlebrow" audience. This avoids the downscale image of an American novel. The line marks the self-improvement of culture and political education. A more polemical Penguin option, usually with a left-hand orientation for Labor Party readers, was widely distributed during World War II. But the war years led to a shortage of staff for publishers and bookstores, and a severe lack of paper rations, aggravated by air strikes on Paternoster Square in 1940 that burned 5 million books in the warehouse.
Romantic fiction is very popular, with Mills and Boon leading publishers. Romantic encounters are embodied in the principle of sexual purity that shows not only social conservatism, but also how female heroes can control their personal autonomy. Adventure magazines are becoming very popular, especially those published by DC Thomson; publishers send observers across the country to talk to boys and learn what they want to read. The storyline in the magazines and theaters most appealing to boys is the glamorous and glorious heroism of engaging and fair British soldiers.
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Type
Various recreational activities extend from very informal and casual activities to highly organized and durable. A significant subset of recreational activities is a hobby that is done for personal satisfaction, usually on a regular basis, and often results in satisfaction through the development of recognized skills or accomplishments, sometimes in the form of products. The list of hobbies is always changing as society changes.
Spare time serious
Hobby and substantial and satisfying search are described by Stebbins as serious recreation. The Serious Perspective of Convenience is a way of viewing various recreational activities in three main categories: Casual Recreation, Serious Recreation, and Project Based Recreation.
"Serious tired is a systematic pursuit of an amateur, fan or volunteer... very important, interesting and satisfying and where... the participants found [recreational] careers...". For example, collect stamps or maintain a common wetland area.
People who do serious recreation can be categorized as amateurs, volunteers or fans. Their involvement is distinguished from casual leisure with the high level of persistence, effort, knowledge, and training required and long-lasting benefits and the feeling that one can create a recreational career through the activity.
Serious recreational activities thrive in modern times with advanced societies with greater leisure, longevity and prosperity. The Internet provides increased support for amateurs and fans to communicate, display and share products.
Casual leisure
"Relaxed fun is immediately, intrinsically beneficial, and it is a relatively short, fun, short-lived activity that requires little or no special training to enjoy it." For example, watch TV or go swimming.
Project-based convenience
"Project-based free time is short-term, complex, single-shot or occasional, though rare, creative work is done at leisure." For example, working on a single Wikipedia article or creating a park feature.
Cultural differences
The time available to relax varies from one society to another, although anthropologists have found that hunter-gatherers tend to have significantly more free time than people in more complex societies. As a result, bands like Shoshone in the Great Basin became extremely lazy to European colonizers.
Workaholics, less common than social myths, are those who work compulsively at the expense of other activities. They prefer to work rather than spend time socializing and engage in other recreational activities.
Men generally have more free time than women, because of household responsibilities and upbringing and increased participation in paid work. In Europe and the United States, adult men typically have between one and nine hours more free time than do each week.
Family holiday
Family vacations are defined as the time that parents and children spend together in leisure or recreational activities, and that can be extended to overcome intergenerational family recreations over time that grandparents, parents, and grandchildren spend time together or recreational activities. Comfort can be a central place for the development of emotional closeness and strong family ties. Context like urban/rural form perspective, meaning, and experience of family recreation. For example, recreation times are part of rural work, and rural idyll is enacted by urban families on weekends, but both urban and rural families somehow romanticize rural contexts as ideal spaces for family making (connection to nature, slower and more intimate space, the idea of ​​a caring social structure, tranquility, etc.). Also, many "family vacations" require the task most often given to women.
Aging
Comfort is important throughout life and can facilitate a sense of control and self-esteem. Older adults, in particular, can benefit from the physical, social, emotional, cultural, and spiritual aspects of leisure. Involvement and spare time relationships usually become a "successful" and satisfactory "aging center. For example, doing recreation with grandchildren can enhance feelings of generativity, in which older adults can achieve well-being by leaving behind their inheritance for future generations.
See also
References
Further reading
- Cross, Gary S. Encyclopedia of recreation and recreation in America. (2004).
- Harris, David. Key concepts in leisure study . (Sage, 2005)
- Hunnicutt, Benjamin Kline. Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream. (Temple University Press, 2013).
- Ibrahim, Hilmi. Comfort and society: comparative approach (1991).
- Jenkins, John M., and J.J.J. Pigram. Encyclopedia of outdoor recreation and recreation . (Routledge, 2003). ISBNÃ, 0-415-25226-1.
- Kostas Kalimtzis. Investigation into the ScholÃÆ'Â Fil Philosophical Concept: Convenience as Political End . London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Rojek, Chris, Susan M. Shaw, and A.J. Veal, eds/ Handbook on Leisure Studies . (2006).
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