Serious leisure: a perspective for our time

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls leisure. In this perspective, serious constitutes systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently substantial and interesting in nature and requiring special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast a relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, requiring little or no…