STHM 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Millennials, Continuing Education, Life Satisfaction
3 May 2018
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• Sex vs Gender
◦ One is biological, one is social
◦ Role enforcement
◦ Constraints
▪ Structural: Economic, architectural and accessibility
▪ Intrapersonal: Personal psychological attributes
▪ Interpersonal: Barriers from social interaction
• Women and Leisure
◦ Historically, leisure opportunities reside with white men
◦ Feminism
▪ First wave in 1920
▪ Regained stream during WWII as well as after the war
◦ Inequity in leisure time
▪ Title IX
▪ Expansion of athletic opportunity
◦ Role obligation linked with leisure opportunities
◦ Unstructured and fragmented leisure
◦ Lack of entitlement and second shift roles
• Men and Leisure
◦ Traditional gender roles associated with men changing over time
▪ Changing of work force having major impact
▪ More men taking on strong father role and child rearing responsibility
▪ Generation Y and up have new perspective of masculine roles
▪ 176,000 men classified as stay at home fathers
◦ Utilize leisure as a way to socialize
◦ Changes in traditional masculine has important impacts on leisure
▪ Less conformity to expected activities
▪ More domestic hobbies
▪ Interest in the arts
• Age
◦ Children
▪ Children now exposed to realities of life at younger ages
▪ Family structure changes
▪ More single parents: 10.4 million single mothers, 2.2 million single
fathers
▪ Less stay at home moms
▪ Overscheduling of children: Too much structured time?
▪ Over Parenting: A good and bad thing
▪ Helicopter parenting: Never too far away from the child, hovering over
them
▪ Snowplowing parenting: Will do anything to give their child what they
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Document Summary
Regained stream during wwii as well as after the war. Lack of entitlement and second shift roles: sex vs gender, women and leisure, men and leisure, age. Traditional gender roles associated with men changing over time. More men taking on strong father role and child rearing responsibility. Generation y and up have new perspective of masculine roles. 176,000 men classified as stay at home fathers. Changes in traditional masculine has important impacts on leisure. Children now exposed to realities of life at younger ages. More single parents: 10. 4 million single mothers, 2. 2 million single fathers. Helicopter parenting: never too far away from the child, hovering over them. Snowplowing parenting: will do anything to give their child what they think they need. 51 million people between age 10-19 by 2045. Alcohol and drugs (though this one is interesting) Older adults remaining more active than in past generations. Recreation and leisure play a huge role in life.
