What Role Does Leisure Play In Society
Select one of the following activities: computer gaming, bingo, theatre (spectating and participation), cycling and music festivals. For your selected topic you are required to undertake detailed research in order to complete the following task:
Describe the role of leisure in society and then specifically comment on your selected activity and how it is influenced by changes in society. Discuss the key changes both in participation and also resource provision for this leisure activity.
This should focus on the activity in a UK context and only consider the post-war period. Use specific examples and data to support your discussion.
Leisure is a complex subject, which is part of our day-to-day life. The word ‘leisure’ comes from the Latin word ‘licere’, which means ‘to be free’. Along time, specialists tried to find a suitable definition, but they faced several difficulties because ‘one person’s ‘leisure’ may be another person’s ‘work’!’ (Haworth, 1997, p. 1). According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, leisure is ‘freedom from …show more content…
Sports such as football, basketball, and windsurfing have become very popular. People not only improve social skills but also keep fit. Leisure is in a strong relationship with health and fitness, trying to help people maintain a balance between physic and psychic. All the physical activities people enhance in have the role to reduce daily routine.
Individuals choose their leisure activities in a relationship with their needs. Leisure also has the role to reduce mental stress and induce a stage of relaxation. Stress can be reduced by a series of relaxing activities, which will in the end disconnect individual from the mental obstacles they have to face. People design their leisure time as to feel better and gain forces to continue working. Meeting friends, reading a good book, attend cultural events; all these activities reduce the daily stress we all
Describe the role of leisure in society and then specifically comment on your selected activity and how it is influenced by changes in society. Discuss the key changes both in participation and also resource provision for this leisure activity.
This should focus on the activity in a UK context and only consider the post-war period. Use specific examples and data to support your discussion.
Leisure is a complex subject, which is part of our day-to-day life. The word ‘leisure’ comes from the Latin word ‘licere’, which means ‘to be free’. Along time, specialists tried to find a suitable definition, but they faced several difficulties because ‘one person’s ‘leisure’ may be another person’s ‘work’!’ (Haworth, 1997, p. 1). According to Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, leisure is ‘freedom from …show more content…
Sports such as football, basketball, and windsurfing have become very popular. People not only improve social skills but also keep fit. Leisure is in a strong relationship with health and fitness, trying to help people maintain a balance between physic and psychic. All the physical activities people enhance in have the role to reduce daily routine.
Individuals choose their leisure activities in a relationship with their needs. Leisure also has the role to reduce mental stress and induce a stage of relaxation. Stress can be reduced by a series of relaxing activities, which will in the end disconnect individual from the mental obstacles they have to face. People design their leisure time as to feel better and gain forces to continue working. Meeting friends, reading a good book, attend cultural events; all these activities reduce the daily stress we all