Richard Sennett Research Paper
The Three Developments
The Decline of Public Life, Commercializing Leisure and Recreation; Formalizing Recreation: Organization over spontaneity are the three developments that have brought about the change in leisure time.
The Decline of Public Life is a development in which Richard Sennett argues that modernity has seen the fall of public man, as people more and more seek refuge in “ties of family or intimate association” (Sennett 1977). Leisure has been affected in far-reaching ways. Migration to the suburbs and the progression of the television keeps people home to entertain themselves. Not only television affects the recreation out of our homes, video games, DVD players, personal computers, and the inter- net are also to blame.
The Decline of Public Life, Commercializing Leisure and Recreation; Formalizing Recreation: Organization over spontaneity are the three developments that have brought about the change in leisure time.
The Decline of Public Life is a development in which Richard Sennett argues that modernity has seen the fall of public man, as people more and more seek refuge in “ties of family or intimate association” (Sennett 1977). Leisure has been affected in far-reaching ways. Migration to the suburbs and the progression of the television keeps people home to entertain themselves. Not only television affects the recreation out of our homes, video games, DVD players, personal computers, and the inter- net are also to blame.