The Serious Leisure Perspective

Elkington, Sam; Stebbins, Robert A.

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“…Serious leisure is distinct from casual forms through recognition of the significant time and energy that can be devoted to leisure activities (Stebbins, 2007). It can include activities such as long-distance running, rock climbing and surfing (Elkington & Stebbins, 2014). Newmahr (2010) usefully described six defining features of serious leisure: 1) a unique ethos of the activity; 2) a personal identification with the leisure activity; 3) the need for perseverance; 4) 5 effort required to learn the activity; 5) durable benefits of the activity; and 6) the possibility to pursue the activity as a career.…”

Section: Sex In a Sexualized Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

An Exploratory Study of a New Kink Activity: “Pup Play”

Wignall

McCormack

2015

Arch Sex Behav

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Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0636-8Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0636-8Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTThis study presents the narratives and experiences of 30 gay and bisexual men who participate in a behavior known as "pup play." Never empirically studied before, we use indepth interviews and a modified form of grounded theory to describe the dynamics of pup play and develop a conceptual framework with which to understand it. We discuss the dynamics of pup play, demonstrating that it primarily consists of mimicking the behaviors and adopting the role of a dog. We show that the majority of participants use pup play for sexual satisfaction. It is also a form of relaxation, demonstrated primarily through the existence of a "headspace." We classify pup play as a kink, and find no evidence for the framing of it as a form of zoophilia. We call for further research on pup play as a sexual kink and leisure activity from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.

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Section: Sex In a Sexualized Societymentioning

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An Exploratory Study of a New Kink Activity: “Pup Play”

Wignall

McCormack

2015

Arch Sex Behav

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“…Over 40 years of research and theoretic work on leisure in the name of the Perspective have led to development of a typological map of the world of leisure, the most recent version of which is available on the SLP website (diagrams at www.seriousleisure.net/). A full discussion of this map as well as the three forms is available in Stebbins (2015) and in Elkington and Stebbins (2014).…”

Section: Serious Leisure Perspectivementioning

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Education for Self-Fulfillment: process and context

Stebbins

2015

Educ. Real.

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-Education for Self-Fulfillment: process and context. Education gained through leisure activities plays a central role in our search for self-fulfillment, be the leisure activity a project or a serious pursuit. After discussing the serious leisure perspective, education, both formal and informal, is explored for its special contribution to fostering fulfillment, defined as the realization of personal tastes, talents, and potential. Several key concepts marking the road to fulfillment are discussed: life course, process, leisure education, adult education, self-directed learning, and experience. The ways that acquired education as background knowledge is applied constitute a crucial step in finding self-fulfillment in an activity. The role of Internet and digital technology is also examined. Keywords: Education. Leisure. Self-Fulfillment. Self-Directed Learning.RESUMO -Educação para a Autorrealização: processo e contexto. A educação obtida através de atividades de lazer desempenha um papel central em nossa busca por autorrealização, seja a atividade de lazer um projeto ou uma ocupação séria. Depois de discutir a perspectiva do lazer sério, a educação formal e informal é explorada por sua contribuição especial para promover a realização, definida como o desenvolvimento de gostos, talentos e potencial pessoais. São discutidos diversos conceitos-chave que marcam a caminhada rumo à realização: trajetória de vida, processo, educação pelo lazer, educação de adultos, aprendizagem autodirigida e experiência. As maneiras como a educação adquirida como saberes prévios é aplicada constitui uma etapa fundamental para encontrar a autorrealização em uma atividade. O papel da internet e da tecnologia digital também é examinado. Palavras-chave: Educação. Lazer. Autorrealização. Aprendizagem Autodirigida.

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“…These findings show that the amount of volunteers' work is shaped as a long-tailed distribution with few users (10 per cent) doing most of the work (up to 80 per cent) and a large part of the users doing decreasingly little work. The very active volunteers are engaging with the crowdsourcing project as if it were a full-time job (Holley, 2010) and they can be likened to Elkington and Stebbins' (2014) concept of a leisure career in volunteering. These super users vary in age but most are either retired or young, dynamic, high achieving professionals as such with full-time jobs, and the latter usually take on moderating roles.…”

Section: Crowdsourcingmentioning

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Collection building amongst heritage amateurs

Roued-Cunliffe

2017

Collection Building

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.*Related content and download information correct at time of download. Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to gather an overview of different research fields that study collection building amongst heritage amateurs (e.g. amateur archaeologists, family and local historians, etc.). Design/methodology/approach -First, the paper will define the term heritage amateur and then identify possible fields in which these groups and their collection building have been studied. A snowball procedure was used to collect material for the study. Findings -While there is an overlap between some of the subjects and fields examined, there is a potential for more collaboration resulting in a deeper understanding of collection building amongst heritage amateurs.Research limitations/implications -The term heritage amateur is not widely used, and the identification and collection of material for the review rely on the definition and understanding of this term and the groups included under it. Practical implications -This review of existing literature will benefit researchers and practitioners in the fields of education, information science, museums, libraries and archival studies, as well as the multidisciplinary area of heritage studies. Social implications -There is a growing institutional and political interest in making digital heritage collections available to the general public, and this paper argues that an important part of this is understanding how heritage amateurs already do this. Originality/value -This paper will connect narrow interest areas such as participatory heritage or serious leisure and show how their angles on heritage amateurs differ and compare.

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The Serious Leisure Perspective

Cited by 91 publications

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An Exploratory Study of a New Kink Activity: “Pup Play”

An Exploratory Study of a New Kink Activity: “Pup Play”

Education for Self-Fulfillment: process and context

Collection building amongst heritage amateurs

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