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- Title: One Measure for Defining a Leisure Activity (Report)
- Author : Journal of Leisure Research
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 184 KB
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Introduction Although many authors have used several dimensions in their conceptualizations of leisure, they have characteristically refrained from a discussion of empirical measures for these dimensions. The four dimensions most frequently used--and outlined in brief by Dumazedier (1968, p. 251)--bear repeating. First is the dimension of leisure as freedom from obligation: "... leisure does imply freedom from those institutional obligations that are prescribed by the basic form of social organization." The second dimension is disinterestedness: