AHS107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hazing, Mixed Martial Arts, Preconditioner
5 Jun 2018
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Exploring Leisure’s Boundaries
What is leisure?
• Incredibly varied
• Time spent outside of work, family, responsibilities
• An activity
• The experience itself
• Really depends on the eye of the beholder -depends on the person
• Almost anything at any time may constitute leisure for someone
➢ Leisure typically viewed in positive terms
➢ Positive realm of activity with numerous benefits
➢ Research tends to focus on the positive elements
➢ Leisure sometimes goes against the moral grain of society (PARTY:
Recreational drugs)
Leisure& Deviance
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• Like Leisure-deviance is depended on the person
• Deviance Defined:
• Conduct that is perceived by others as violating
institutional expectations that are shared as legitimate with
the society (sport gambling)
• There is no one act that s university condemned by all
societies
Two Basic forms of Deviance
1. Tolerable
Behaviours where threat to the community is perceived to
be low (recreational drugs use, alcohol consumption, some
forms of sexual behavior)
2. Intolerable
Behaviour in violation of powerful criminal and non-
criminal moral norms (theft, rape, suicide, compulsive
gambling)
Marginal or deviant Leisure
Again, depends on the eye of the beholder
•People enjoy deviant behaviours
•Terminology:
•Deviant
•Marginal
•Purple Recreation
•Taboo Recreation
•Questionable or Problematic
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CLASSIFYING LEISURE AS DEVIANCE
2 Classification Systems:
•Nash Pyramid (1953) (Nash is the first scholar to try it)
•Curtis Scale (1978, 1988)
it is extremely to determine who is a good man
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Document Summary
Positive realm of activity with numerous benefits. Research tends to focus on the positive elements. Leisure sometimes goes against the moral grain of society (party: Behaviours where threat to the community is perceived to be low (recreational drugs use, alcohol consumption, some forms of sexual behavior: intolerable. Behaviour in violation of powerful criminal and non- criminal moral norms (theft, rape, suicide, compulsive gambling) Again, depends on the eye of the beholder: people enjoy deviant behaviours, terminology, deviant, marginal, purple recreation, taboo recreation, questionable or problematic. 2 classification systems: nash pyramid (1953) (nash is the first scholar to try it, curtis scale (1978, 1988) it is extremely to determine who is a good man. Theoretical explanations: sensation seeking (zuckerman, 1979, theory of differential association (sutherland, 1947) Rewards that we get from social environment or social networks or immediate group (supports, contest: theory of differential reinforcement (burgess & Rewards functional set up for society : social bond theory (hirschi, 1969)
