SOC 478 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grazia, Utopia, Socalled

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 478
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

Fun is gratification, deep, intense and isolated: a subjective experience of something meaningful but with boundaries, temporally and embodied. Sex, dancing, swimming, taking drugs, joking, flirting, writing, listening to music or looking at a painting: we may want. For example, while many things may be interpreted as enjoyable they might not be described as fun. Like utopia, leisure is often examined as a place on the map of the social experience that eludes us. Its ability to distract with a temporary or superficial experience satisfies an important psychological need. Amidst fun we are distracted from the self. Our concerns and problems are no longer dominant as we distract ourselves from the continued dialogues taking place in our brain as we negotiate our day to day responsibilities. This is not meant to imply that fun is unimportant or (cid:498)bad. (cid:499) There have been numerous attempts to define (cid:498)leisure(cid:499)