REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personal Identity, Tow Truck, Protestant Work Ethic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Bryan Smale

Document Summary

Module 1: key terminology for recreation and leisure studies. The classical view of leisure: leisure as a state of being textbook. The classical view emphasizes contemplation, enjoyment of self in search of knowledge, debate, politics, and cultural enlightenment . Leisure as activity is non-work activity engaged in one"s free time apart from obligations of work, family, and society: has political or social purposes, e. g. , civil leisure, or using non-work time for social activism. Serious leisure is the systematic pursuit of an activity that participants find so substantial and interesting that they launch themselves on a career centered on acquiring and expressing its special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure is an immediately, intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived pleasurable activity requiring little or no special training to enjoy it: play, relaxation, passive or active entertainment, conversation, sensory stimulation, or casual volunteering, central characteristic: pleasure. Project-based leisure is a short-term, moderately complicated, through infrequent, creative undertaking carried out in free time.