LSR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Leisure Studies, Otium
10 Oct 2017
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Conceptual confusion/di culty: why do people not have a common de nition of leisure: this eld is multicultural. Sylvester: imagine the bewilderment a naive researcher su ers when discovering leisure. Leisure may be free time, freedom, an activity, a state of mind or a license of some sort. He says that it has a broad meaning, which is what causes conceptual confusion. Heintzman: he claims developing your own understanding of leisure has relevance for your own life . Also, if you anticipate working in the leisure services eld it is important for you to develop an understanding of leisure as a foundation for your work . Last, an understanding of the common de nitions of leisure will be helpful to you when working with a diversity of canadians . Owens: he implied that leisure is freedom from restraint. Arnold: also researched the root of the word leisure, which he believed comes from.
