ABSTRACT
As individuals pursue their leisure interests, they develop networks of contacts related in one way or another to these interests. In the field of leisure studies, Stokowski has devoted by far the most attention to social networks. Knowing people's leisure networks helps explain how they socially organize their leisure time. Volunteer organizations offer leisure only to career and casual volunteers and to volunteers serving projects. Serious leisure is offered when a company holds an intra-organizational golf tournament or arranges for an outing of fishing at a remote camp. Tribes are special leisure organizations, special ways of organizing the pursuit of particular kinds of casual leisure. Beyond the broad domains of tolerable and intolerable deviant casual leisure lies that of deviant serious leisure, composed primarily of aberrant religion, politics, and science. Commitment is neither an antecedent nor a concomitant of serious and project-based leisure, but rather one of their most profound consequences.
