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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
LEISURE STUDIES

Volume 5

LEISURE IDENTITIES AND INTERACTIONS

LEISURE IDENTITIES AND INTERACTIONS

JOHN R. KELLY

First published in 1983 by George Allen & Unwin

This edition first published in 2019
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1983 John R. Kelly

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ISBN: 978-0-367-11036-9 (Set)
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ISBN: 978-0-367-13315-3 (Volume 5) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-02584-6 (Volume 5) (ebk)

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Leisure Identities and Interactions

John R. Kelly

John R. Kelly, 1983

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved.

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First published in 1983

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Kelly, John R.

Leisure identities and interactions. (Leisure and recreation studies; I)

1. Leisure

I. Title II. Series

306.48 GV174

ISBN 0-04-301150-0

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kelly, John R. (John Roberts), 1930

Leisure identities and interactions.

(Leisure and recreation studies; no. 1) Includes index.

1. Leisure Psychological aspects. 2. Leisure Social aspects. I. Title. II. Series.

GV14.4.K44 1983 790.0132 82-25278

ISBN 0-04-301150-0

Set in 10 on 11 point Bembo by Computape (Pickering) Ltd
and printed in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd, Guildford, Surrey

Contents

This book is intended to do more than review and summarize current research and theory in the study of leisure. It offers what is intended as a coherent and integrated argument. However, no finality or closure is assumed or desired. Rather, the presentation moves through some of the accomplishments and limitations of sociological and social-psychological approaches to leisure to the development of an existential mode of analysis. This mode should be understood as a springboard for further work rather than a final answer to researchable questions.

Further, those who are engaged in the study of leisure are now in a position to undertake a more systematic dialogue with their disciplines in the social sciences. This dialogue need not be apologetic or tentative. There is now ample evidence that leisure is a major element in human life. Giving attention to understanding this phenomenon is not frivolous and may properly receive the investment of able scientists of many disciplines and theoretical persuasions.

Leisure is simply too important to too many people to be trivial. A social-psychological approach to understanding leisure incorporates both the social context of the roles that change through the life course and the development of identities in and through those roles. In social systems with considerable rigidity in how many roles are defined and enacted the relative freedom of leisure often offers the richest opportunities for the development of satisfying selfhood and identities. When developmental dilemmas constrict personal expression and the exploration of significant dimensions of interpersonal relationships, leisure may be the social space in which there is openness for important new interactions and self-definitions.

The final chapter in this book incorporates the presentation first developed in the December 1981 special issue of Social Forces. For more detailed analysis of some of the specific contexts of leisure, the reader is referred to the authors recent book Leisure. However, Leisure Identities and Interactions goes far beyond that in its development of the dialogue between sociology and leisure studies. While every effort is made not to burden the reader with needlessly complex vocabulary and concepts, this book is intended for those who desire more than an introduction to the study of leisure.

I am grateful to all who have enriched my understanding of life and leisure through the years. They include not only scholars who have informed my views in formal and informal exchange, but so many whose experiences and interpretations have been absorbed even though the source of the insight has been forgotten. I dedicate this work to that international community of leisure scholars who have taken the risks of investing themselves in this area of study and to the future of our work together.

JOHN R. KELLY
University of Illinois

Leisure Identities and Interactions

In leisure the same activity may have many meanings:

For one young mother, her art class is primarily a social event in which she is released for two hours from home and childrearing for conversation during the class and the coffee break that follows. For another woman of about the same age, her engagement with art is a demanding discipline begun in school and focused on a development of a mastery of techniques and styles that is both the aim and the satisfaction of painting.

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