Cross-sectional studies report age differences in leisure activities (Bray & Howard, 1983). Young adults participate in a greater range of activities than middle-aged adults do. Furthermore, Work, Leisure, and Retirement 477young adults tend to prefer intense leisure activities, such as scuba diving and hang gliding. In contrast, middle-aged adults focus more on home — and […]
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Types of Leisure Activities
Leisure can include virtually any activity. To help organize the options, researchers have classified leisure activities into four categories: cultural—such as attending sporting events, concerts, church services, and meetings; physical—such as basketball, hiking, aerobics, and gardening; social—such as visiting friends and going to parties; and solitary— including reading, listening to music, and watching television (Bosse […]
Generic inertia and innovation
I have argued that television clearly has a significant role to play in the development of sexual citizenship and that there is a legitimate ‘public interest’ in the forms of representation made available that shouldn’t simply be left to market relations. The historical formation of taste means that generic conventions constrain the production and consumption […]
PLEASURES AND ‘RESISTING PLEASURES’
Star argues that for the heterosexual audience the issue is sex (and masculinity): the principal object of the television ‘gaze’ in telerugby is male bodies. She notes one of the few explicit women’s accounts of pleasures in watching ‘Aussie Rules football’ on television: What attracted my interest were the images of male bodies. Here were […]
Leisure Activities
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What types of leisure activities do adults exhibit? • What developmental differences are there in leisure activities? • What do people derive from leisure activities? A nthony is a 55-year-old electrician who has enjoyed outdoor activities his whole life. From the time he was a boy, he has fished and water-skied in […]
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The eighteenth century thus saw the birth of a new type of media culture, in which both private affairs and personal opinions came to be given unprecedented publicity. This development fuelled the freer public discussion of sexual matters, facilitated the celebrity of immoral women, and provided novel opportunities for the manipulation of public opinion. What […]
Division of Labor and Role Conflict. in Dual-Earner Couples
One of the largest issues still facing American society in the new millennium is how dual-earner couples can balance their occupational and family roles. With the majority of couples now consisting of two wage earners, issues such as who does the household chores and how child care is arranged will become increasingly important. Many people […]
Juggling Multiple Roles
When both members of a couple with dependents are employed, who cleans the house, cooks the meals, and takes care of the children when they are ill? This question gets to the heart of the core dilemma of modern, dual-earner couples: How are household chores divided? How are work and family role conflicts handled? Dividing […]
Ideologists and Interests
If the strategic argument is even partly correct, it highlights the importance of the people who are engaged in remaking cultural forms. Discussions of sexual ideology have to a remarkable extent ignored the ideologists. The main exception is Viola Klein in The Feminine Character. Her approach from Mannheim’s sociology of knowledge led to a concern […]
The Dependent Care Dilemma
Many employed adults must also provide care for dependent children or parents. As we will show, the issues they face are complex. Employed Caregivers. Many mothers have no option but to return to work after the birth of a child. In fact, 64% of American women with children under the age of six years are […]