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This concluding chapter summarizes all the chapters in this volume on positive sociology of leisure (PSL), while identifying common themes across them. Some of the common themes are represented in the book’s sections: meanings of leisure; aging; gender, sexuality, and family; community, youth, and education; and arts and creativity. In addition to these section themes, we also note several common characteristics of PSL, including a balanced view of leisure phenomena, lifespan perspective, methodological diversity, interdisciplinarity, and representations of different cultures. The chapter also outlines three main tasks to be addressed in the future PSL studies, including theory development, evidence building based on various methods, and cultural diversity.
Compared with the mainstream this new field necessarily starts from some different premises. In general, explaining positiveness rests on a non-problematic model. That is, the principal wellspring of positive sociology is, in large part, the sociology of leisure.
—(Robert A. Stebbins, 2018, p. 51)
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Kono, S., Beniwal, A., Baweja, P., Spracklen, K. (2020). Conclusion to Positive Sociology of Leisure. In: Kono, S., Beniwal, A., Baweja, P., Spracklen, K. (eds) Positive Sociology of Leisure. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41812-0_20
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