ABSTRACT
The French author Joffre Dumazedier 1 identified four characteristics of leisure: liberated, disinterested, hedonistic and personal. Together, these seem to be at variance with his wider perspective of “cultural development,” in which questions of values and education are invoked in the belief that leisure serves the multiple, mixed functions of relaxation, entertainment, and development. More recently, Dumazedier stressed the role of leisure as an autonomous sphere of production of new social values.
