ABSTRACT
The handful of major attempts to study values empirically have started from different preconceptions and have altogether failed to link together and yield a domain of cumulative knowledge. There has developed a substantial body of knowledge that suggests how gender, race, social class, and age are related in some degree to leisure behaviors or activity preferences. The review of the literature pertaining to the concept of ethnic identity reveals the ever present conundrum of how to resolve notable differences in the scientific preferences presented by psychologists, sociologists, cultural geographers, or cultural anthropologists. Although many of the investigations stated that their inquiry sought to address cross-cultural questions, the investigators were seldom cross-disciplinary in their research design. In psychology, the premise has been expressed that ethnicity is more situational than constant and it is linked to a developmental process.
