Leisure and consumption
Subtitle: common ground/separate worlds
By: Robert A. Stebbins.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780230220225
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Leisure -- Economic aspects
Description: The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious, agenda-setting study, provides the most in-depth examination of the relationship between the two to date, drawing on the serious leisure perspective and outlining a new conceptual framework for analyzing consumption for leisure.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of leisure and consumption; title: Conspicuous consumption; title: Consumption and leisure in context; title: Phase one: shopping; title: Phase two: consuming the purchase; title: Organizing for consumptive leisure.