A Response to Re-framing Questions: Assessing the Significance of Leisure

Cushman, Grant; Gidlow, Bob

doi:10.1080/04419057.2008.9674542

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“…There are further relevant studies published in books and conference papers. There are also numerous studies of event volunteers in related leisure, tourism and sport journals, reflecting as Cushman and Gidlow (2008) note, the pragmatic push to find favourable rankings rather than publishing strictly in discipline specific journals. Accepting these caveats, however, we contend that there are communalities in this sample body of work that apply to the manner in which volunteering is explored in other leisure settings including tourism, sports and parks and recreation.…”

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Volunteers and volunteering in leisure: social science perspectives

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Leisure has been widely examined within the context of social science theory; however, little work has considered the range of social science disciplines and applied them to specific phenomena located within the leisure field. This paper adopts such an approach to conceptualise and examine volunteers and volunteering in leisure settings. In a disciplinary sense, therefore, the sociological view focuses upon the conceptualisation of volunteering as leisure, the psychological view seeks to understand motivations driving volunteering while the perspective of economists tends to complement these standpoints in terms of why people volunteer and further examines the value of volunteer contributions. Comparative analysis of the perspectives enunciated within these key disciplines provides a picture of the status of research relating to leisure volunteers and volunteering. The purposes of this paper are to identify gaps in current knowledge, drawing out conclusions and their implications for an improved understanding of this area as well as to enhance comprehension of disciplinary contributions to the study of leisure phenomena.

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