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The Real World
AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
2nd Edition
Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein
Chapter 14
Recreation and Leisure in
Everyday Life
Studying Leisure and
Recreation
• Leisure refers to time that can be spent
relaxing, engaging in recreation, or otherwise
indulging in freely chosen activities.
• Recreation includes any pleasurable activity
that is refreshing and renewing for the body,
mind, and spirit.
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Studying Leisure and Recreation
(cont’d)
• Three related developments have changed
modern leisure-time activities.
• The first is that many leisure activities have
shifted from the public to the private spherepeople spend more time at home, especially
with new technologies.
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Studying Leisure and Recreation
(cont’d)
• Secondly, leisure and recreation have
become commodities (goods or services
that are bought or sold). While people used
to make their own fun, they now purchase it
as goods and services.
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Studying Leisure and Recreation
(cont’d)
• Finally, many recreational activities that were
once spontaneous and unsupervised are
now formally organized. Technology has
indirectly assisted in this process.
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Leisure: The Opposite of Work?
• Leisure isn’t the opposite of work—the two
are linked together through consumption (the
use of goods and services).
• Types of leisure activities are associated with
social class. (Your class determines the
kinds of activities you partake in.)
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The Media
• Since we know that technology has impacted
our leisure and recreation, what role does the
media play in this process?
The Structure of Media
Industries
• The media clearly is a major social
institution, with increasing power and
importance.
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The Structure of Media Industries
(cont’d)
• There is currently a trend toward
conglomeration, which is the process by
which a single corporation acquires
ownership of a variety of otherwise unrelated
businesses.
The Increasing Concentration of Media Outlets (Figure 14.1)
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The Structure of Media Industries
(cont’d)
• Another trend is an increase in the number of
mergers (the legal combination of two
companies, usually in order to maximize
efficiency and profits by eliminating
redundant infrastructure and personnel).
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The Structure of Media Industries
(cont’d)
• In order to avoid a monopoly (a situation in
which there is only one individual or
organization, without competitors, providing a
particular good or service) in any one market,
the FCC has established some restrictions
on media-outlet ownership.
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The Structure of Media Industries
(cont’d)
• Traditional media has become increasingly
concentrated in recent years, however,
technology has given us new types of media,
like zines, blogs, and podcasts, all of which
can provide greater diversity of opinion and
content than commercial media.
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Does Media Affect Us?
Passive vs. Active Audiences
• Magic Bullet Theory (or hypodermic
needle theory) According to this theory,
media consumers are passive, uncritical
recipients of content.
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Does Media Affect Us?
Passive vs. Active Audiences (cont’d)
• The active audience theory explains the
effects of media through the interpretive
activity of the audience members.
• The uses and gratification paradigm
focuses on the psychological or social needs
that various media fulfill.
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Does Media Affect Us?
Passive vs. Active Audiences (cont’d)
• The encoding/decoding model combines
models and recognizes that media texts are
created to deliver specific messages and that
individuals actually interpret them.
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Recreation, Leisure, and
Relationships
• Our recreational choices can lead us to form
unique bonds with others, sometimes in the
form of role model (an individual who serves
as an example for others to strive towards
and emulate) relationships.
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Recreation, Leisure, and
Relationships (cont’d)
• Third place (after home and work, which are
first and second) can be any informal public
place where people come together regularly
for conversation and camaraderie when not
at work or home.
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Recreation, Leisure, and
Relationships (cont’d)
• Civil society refers to organizations,
institutions, and interactions outside of
government, family, and work that promote
social bonds and the smooth functioning of
society.
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Recreation and Leisure | Concept Quiz
1. True or False: According to sociologists,
recreation and leisure are basically the same
thing.
a. True
b. False
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Recreation and Leisure | Concept Quiz
2. “Media consumers are passive, uncritical
recipients of content” This statement best
represents which theory?
a. Active audience theory
b. Magic bullet theory
c. Encoding/decoding theory
d. Gratification paradigm
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Recreation and Leisure | Concept Quiz
3. A law designed to prohibit monopolies in the mass
media would be an example of:
a. synergy
b. conglomeration laws
c. antitrust legislation
d. capitalism
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Recreation and Leisure | Concept Quiz
4. Which of the following is an example of a third
place?
a. Your office
b. Bedroom
c. A local coffeehouse
d. A bathroom
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Rise of the Leisure Class
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Commercialized Leisure
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Playing and Working
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Postmodern Consumers
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Fan-Celebrity Relations
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Where’s Your Third Place?
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Theory in Everyday Life
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