
Sociability Associations
A Literature Review
Robert Stebbins(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 7. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
74 pages
978-90-04-39789-7 (ISBN)
Description
Friendly social relations during free time, referred to here as leisure-based sociability, constitute a prominent reward of participation in groups based on voluntary membership, consisting for this review mainly of amateurs, hobbyists, volunteers, and their associations. This benefit is analyzed according to two subtypes: sociable nonprofit associations and social clubs. The goal of this issue of the Voluntaristics Review is to examine the leisure component of these two subtypes as framed in the serious leisure perspective (SLP), put nonprofit sociability in organizational context, and then review the empirical literature bearing on it. Excluded are the studies and theoretic treatises approaching nonprofit groups from another angle (e.g., organizational structure, management issues, funding sources, governmental regulation, type of employment). Specifically, this review centers on the relevant publications listed in the SLP website bearing on amateurs, hobbyists, and career volunteers (the serious pursuits), casual leisure, and project-based interests. It includes several extensions of the theory and research on leisure-related aspects of aging and retirement, arts and science administration, library and information science, positive psychology, therapeutic recreation and disability studies, and tourism and event analysis. Compared with the specialties in leisure studies, the SLP casts by far the broadest theoretical and empirical net in that interdisciplinary field. The research reviewed shows that such talk-generically known as socializing-reflects one or more of 14 themes. In general, members find sociability in these clubs and associations in and around the core activities they pursue there and on which the two subtypes have formed. The studies reviewed, taken together, provide considerable validation of the proposition that leisure-based sociability is a prominent reward of participating in a multitude of volunteer groups. Leisure-based sociability is essentially micro-analytic, but when viewed through the lens of the SLP, it can be further understood using meso and macro levels of analysis.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
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113 gr
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978-90-04-39789-7 (9789004397897)
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Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary He received his PhD in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. He has written or edited over fifty books. Stebbins was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1999).
Content
Sociability Associations: A Literature Review
?Robert A. Stebbins
Abstract
Keywords
?Editor's Introduction: The Neglected Expressive-Emotional Side of Volunteering and Voluntary Action: The Broader Context of This VR 3.3 Issue on Sociability Associations
?1?Introduction
?2?Criteria
?3?The Serious Leisure Perspective
?4?Sociability Associations in Context
?5?Sociability among Amateurs
?6?Sociability among Hobbyists
?7?Sociability among Volunteers
?8?Project-Based Leisure
?9?Extensions of the SLP
?10?Sociability in Casual Leisure
?11?Sociable Nonprofit Associations
?12?Social Clubs
?13?Conclusions
?Bibliography
?Author Biography
?Robert A. Stebbins
Abstract
Keywords
?Editor's Introduction: The Neglected Expressive-Emotional Side of Volunteering and Voluntary Action: The Broader Context of This VR 3.3 Issue on Sociability Associations
?1?Introduction
?2?Criteria
?3?The Serious Leisure Perspective
?4?Sociability Associations in Context
?5?Sociability among Amateurs
?6?Sociability among Hobbyists
?7?Sociability among Volunteers
?8?Project-Based Leisure
?9?Extensions of the SLP
?10?Sociability in Casual Leisure
?11?Sociable Nonprofit Associations
?12?Social Clubs
?13?Conclusions
?Bibliography
?Author Biography