The symbolic interaction metaphor and leisure: critical challenges

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In 1983, Leisure Identities and Interactions was published in an attempt to provide an alternative to structure-functional sociological premises, theory, and research methods. This symbolic-interaction project focused on situated meanings of behavior, proposed identity as a link between the personal and the social, defined leisure as a constructed process, and gave attention to actual social contexts including role sets and face-to-face interaction. In the decade since, at least three major developments in the study of leisure have challenged the LII project: attention to gender issues, British cultural studies, and social construction approaches. Implications of these challenges are examined and revisions of the project suggested.

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