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Time, Freedom and the Self: The Cultural Construction of “Free” Time

✍ Scribed by Michelle Shir-Wise

Publisher
Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
380
Series
Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise examines not only what people do in their free time, but also how they perceive, interpret and experience it, and in what way it relates to notions of happiness, freedom and the ideal self. Time, Freedom and the Self draws on contemporary theoretical debates concerning the relation between discourse, cultural repertoires, subjective meaning and agency, as well as literature around the sociology of leisure, to inform a unique interpretation of free time (“disciplined freedom”), developed in the light of questionnaires and in-depth interviews with middle-class, middle-aged participants in suburban Israel.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 1-8
Free Time, Culture and the Self (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 9-52
What Is Topaz? (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 53-69
Conceptual Mapping: What Is Free Time? (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 71-94
Quantitative Mapping and Subjective Mapping: Free Time in Practice (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 95-132
The Productive Self (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 133-159
The Consuming Self (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 161-217
The Social Self (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 219-276
The Meaningful Self (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 277-300
Contradictory Free Time, Culture and Freedom (Michelle Shir-Wise)....Pages 301-337
Back Matter ....Pages 339-371

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Sociology of Sport and Leisure; Sociology of Work; Self and Identity; Sociology of Culture; Cultural Studies

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