A View of Leisure and Patterns of Family Life in the Late 1990s

Willming, Cynthia; Gibson, Heather

doi:10.1080/07053436.2000.10715606

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“…Feminist sociology challenged the normative notion of the nuclear family (Smith, 1993) and contemporary family sociology recognises diversity in family life (Chambers, 2012;Hill, 2012). Family leisure researchers also acknowledge the influence of ethnic, racial, religious, class and sexual identities on family life and leisure (Bialeschki & Pearce, 1997;Rehman, 2001;Shaw & Dawson, 1998;Willming & Gibson, 2000), but have not really explored how diverse families practice and value family leisure. Shaw (2010) discussed implications of diversity in Canadian families for both family leisure and personal leisure and the tensions between them, but the empirical work remains to be done.…”

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Practices and meaning of purposive family leisure among working- and middle-class families

Harrington

2014

Leisure Studies

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This article explores the relationship between purposive family leisure and social class in Australian families. A brief review of family leisure literature is followed by a review of conceptual developments in family sociology and the new sociology of class in order to build a richer conceptual and theoretical base for exploring purposive family leisure. Qualitative data are reported from semi-structured interviews with parents in 28 working-and middle-class families in Brisbane, Australia. An analysis of family leisure practices show differences in what constitutes family leisure and its display. Moreover, parents' stated intentions for engaging in family leisure practices suggest that there is a classed dimension to purposive leisure, in that working-and middle-class parents emphasise different values and imagined futures for their children.

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Practices and meaning of purposive family leisure among working- and middle-class families

Harrington

2014

Leisure Studies

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“…However, PA can also be higher in case when children mobilize parents to active spending of free time 31 , 32 or when parents motivate themselves when children move away from a family home. 33 …”

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Stay active for life: physical activity across life stages

Biernat¹,

Piątkowska²

2018

CIA

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PurposeThis paper concerns participation of Poles aged 15+ years in leisure time and transport-related physical activity (PA) with a special focus on the life stages. The purpose of the paper was to analyze types of exercises, current and future behavior concerning PA, availability of sport and recreation facilities, and factors having the strongest relation with undertaking PA at a sufficient level according to pro-health recommendations of World Health Organization (WHO).Patients and methodsA survey was carried out on the representative sample (n=2,000). Respondents were classified in accordance to their life stages with a two-step cluster analysis. Relationships between meeting the dose of PA required for health recommendations and a membership in groups of life stages were evaluated using log-linear analysis. The strength of this relationship was expressed by the odds ratio. In order to capture relationships between meeting WHO recommendations and a set of explanatory variables, a predictive model was built.ResultsLife stages and various related events have a significant relation with a decrease of PA. Among groups of a particular risk, there are professionally active and unemployed people aged 50–64 years without children as well as retirees aged 65+ years who do not meet WHO recommendations (45.3; 50.4% and 47.6%). The unemployed and retirees more frequently (p<0.0001) do not or cannot practice sport and do not think that a change of their situation is expected soon. However, 35% of professionally active people aged 50–64 years without children and 18.2% of unemployed people declare that they are currently not active but if they had the possibility, they would start practicing sport.ConclusionCampaigns promoting PA should be targeted at groups of a particular risk. Any attempts of increasing PA or changing tendencies of its decrease should consider life conditions of these persons, as well as their needs, motivations, and barriers.

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“…Reflecting the findings of other research (Willming & Gibson, 2000), the onset of parenthood has been shown to crucially alter both men's and women's leisure. Analysis of men's leisure throughout the lifecourse revealed that transitions to the fatherhood role were accompanied with a loss of the amount of autonomy and freedom fathers could exercise over their leisure time and leisure choices.…”

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“…Macro changes in both the structure of family-employment life and in particular the decline in the male-breadwinner family required leisure theorists to reassess the relationship between fatherhood and leisure from the 1980s. In addition the emergence of a 'second-wave feminism' called into question the andocentric evolution of male-dominated theoretical approaches to leisure (Willming & Gibson, 2000). These combined factors served to stimulate a re-examination of the work-leisure dichotomy.…”

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Leisure and Fatherhood in Dual‐Earner Families

Such¹

2006

Leisure Studies

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This paper explores the relationship between fatherhood in the context of dual-earner families in the UK. A gender constructivist theoretical framework is first described then applied to data gathered from interviews with 14 dual-employed couples with dependent children. Leisure is revealed as a key component of men's role as fathers that sits alongside the much-discussed notion of breadwinning. The structure, nature and meaning of leisure is shown to be crucially altered by the onset of parenthood. While leisure still retains meanings of autonomy and personal pursuit, it becomes a context for parenting during childrearing. The discourse of 'leisure-based parenting' contrasts sharply with mothers' discussions of both parenting and leisure. Data from interviews with both partners are used to highlight the different 'hierarchies' of employment, family and leisure that co-exist within families. The paper also outlines the interactions between mothers' and fathers' experience of (paid and unpaid) work, family life and leisure that act to construct and reconstruct gendered lifecourse trajectories. The impact of each partner's leisure orientations on the behaviour of the other is presented as an example of the way gendered leisure mediates the lifestyles of fathers, mothers and families.

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A View of Leisure and Patterns of Family Life in the Late 1990s

Abstract: During the last two decades, feminist analysis has brought to light the structural factors circumscribing women's leisure such as age,

Cited by 12 publications

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Practices and meaning of purposive family leisure among working- and middle-class families

Practices and meaning of purposive family leisure among working- and middle-class families

Stay active for life: physical activity across life stages

Leisure and Fatherhood in Dual‐Earner Families

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