LSR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margaret Mead

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Leisure Studies
• Course: LSR 1100
• Professor: George Karlis

Document Summary

Activity (who talks about activity and how do they talk about it?) Experience (who focuses on experience and why is experience the central focus of their definitions?) Emotional condition (what is that, what does it mean, and in what context are they using it?) Amusement, arts, crafts, games, sports, spectating, reading, writing, voluntary. In his analysis of recreation, he explores the ancient greek civilization extensively. Slaves (80% of the population) did most of the work (cid:498)recreation is a given set of activities which are somehow inherently recreational service, etc. Nearly any activity has the potential to be recreational(cid:499) (cid:498)recreation is culturally specific like leisure(cid:499) )f we limit recreation to simply (cid:498)activities(cid:499) we miss what all it really is. Work as a means to provide for life"s needs. Leisure the noblest pursuit in life (cid:498)recreatio(cid:499) to restore or refresh. **(midterm question - compare these with the 3 elements godbey came up with for.