STHM 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Baby Boomers, Vail Resorts
3 May 2018
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• It’s Everywhere
◦ Importance of leisure can be seen by it’s everywhereness
▪ People take part in it both indoors and outdoors
◦ Delivered by a plethora of different organizations and companies- public, non-profit,
private, for-proft
◦ Performed all four seasons
◦ Utilized by all age groups, ethnicities, races, ect.
• Leisure and Life
◦ It is estimated that Americans spend roughly $300 billion on leisure every year
▪ Almost double what was spent in the 1970s
◦ Recent estimates that 8% if disposable income spent on leisure
◦ You should never equate expenditure with participation
▪ Some forms of leisure are more expensive than others
• Leisure Patterns
◦ Studies have actually found that the most frequent types of leisure are not actual
activities, but things related to interaction with family and friends
◦ Sport, watching TV and reading are high on the list as well
◦ Other forms that rank high are things such as religious worship, entertaining, hobbies,
gardening, ect.
◦ Increase in active participation
▪ 56% of country age 6+ participates in some sort of high caloric burn activity
◦ Decreased in inactivity from 2014-2015 (0.6%), from 82.7 to 81.6 million
▪ Age and income big predictors
▪ Age 65+ and households with income under $50,000 have lower rates of
participation
◦ Yet Leisure is constantly changing
▪ How has leisure changed when considering yourself and your parents for
example?
▪ Internet
▪ Video games
▪ Reading
▪ Outdoor sports
▪ General Factors promoting change
▪ Move from agrarian society to a more industrial, urban society
▪ Changes in economic structure
▪ Shift in acceptance of different populations and family dynamics
▪ New social expectations from the government
◦ More Discretionary Time
▪ Post agrarian society should have more discretionary time
▪ Mandated work week, more time off, holidays, ect
▪ What are the impacts of technology?
▪ Age, gender, education, all impact discretionary time
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Document Summary
Importance of leisure can be seen by it"s everywhereness. People take part in it both indoors and outdoors. Delivered by a plethora of different organizations and companies- public, non-profit, private, for-proft. Utilized by all age groups, ethnicities, races, ect: it"s everywhere, leisure and life, leisure patterns. It is estimated that americans spend roughly billion on leisure every year. Almost double what was spent in the 1970s. Recent estimates that 8% if disposable income spent on leisure. Some forms of leisure are more expensive than others. Studies have actually found that the most frequent types of leisure are not actual activities, but things related to interaction with family and friends. Sport, watching tv and reading are high on the list as well. Other forms that rank high are things such as religious worship, entertaining, hobbies, gardening, ect. 56% of country age 6+ participates in some sort of high caloric burn activity.
