REC100 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Textbook Notes
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Disagreeable obligations forced on individuals by others or by circumstances: coerced time commitments these commitments varies across its 3 forms: serious, casual, and project-based leisure. Amateurs activity constitutes a livelihood for its professionals but not its amateurs: ex. acting, hockey, stand-up comedy, etc, found in art, science, sport, and entertainment, pursue activities part-time (unlike professionals that work full-time) Amateurs and hobbyists drawn to leisure pursuits more by self-interest than by altruism. Casual leisure immediately and intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived and pleasurable activity requiring little or no special training to enjoy it: hedonic pursued for its significant level of pure enjoyment or pleasure. Considerably less substantial and offers no career of the sort found in serious leisure. 8 types: play, relaxation, passive entertainment, active entertainment, sociable conversation, sensory stimulation, casual volunteering, pleasurable aerobic activity. To do such activities requires little more than minimal skill, knowledge, or experience.