PERLS204 Lecture : March 26 - consuming leisure.doc

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS204
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

March 26 consuming leisure: even after theww2, we still had debt but were on the cusp of change. John diefenbaker and progressive conservatives sweep to office in 1957. Play in the suburbs: affluence, a healthy populations and an ethic that promoted togetherness all contributed to increase leisure time. Play is child"s work = educational theory, family manuals, magazine articles. Fathers were supposed to be pals and present in the home. It brought families together and affected communication ensured they didn"t talk much: required particular economic conditions, us in 1948 there were 100 tvs. In the 1950s, people began to speculate on the effects of tv on things like academic performance. In september 1952, the cbc transmits its first tv broadcast from montreal, Tv continued: tv mirrored middle class values, ethnically, a white, anglo saxon medium, presented a black and white world of good and bad, spread the myth of the postwar family.