REC 265 Lecture 1: REC 265-Leisure_Aug 25
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Leisure is contextual: leisure depends on place, time, and people. Place the geography/globally can affect leisure time. Ex: college students in app cannot go to the beach like leisure for uncw students. Ex: germany spends a lot of their leisure time walking, the. Time different leisure between age groups and stuff. People different people like different things and find different things fun. Leisure- is free time; recreational activity; attitude: time free from obligations. Discretionary time: time free from work, study, class, laundry, transportation to and from; something you do for fun. Most popular recreational activity in the us is watching tv: self-actualized life perspective. Leisure is not in the time, or an action, but in the actor. Leisure is complex because it is multi-faceted (it depends on the person"s experience. Freedom is an element in leisure: for something to be pure leisure you have to have freedom. Leisure is a social responsibility, a sense of service (doing something for others)
