REC100 Lecture 5: Serious Leisure

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Zara Rafferty

Document Summary

Socialization is an active process of learning and social development, which occurs as we interact with one another and become acquainted with the social world in which we live. Through socialization, we learn the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to our social context(s) a life-long process, but there are certain periods that are more significant than others. The process through which we acquire skills, attitudes, and knowledge related to. They convey what is acceptable and unacceptable leisure behaviour, both leisure is influenced by social learning hese others are referred to as social agents and are key to the socialization process. knowingly and unknowingly. The influence of social agents can fluctuate over a short period of time. Leisure subcultures people who centre their lives around one particular leisure activity. This activity, whatever it is, becomes the basis for their identity. Within an existing subculture, there can be hierarchies.