ABSTRACT
As we saw in the introduction the study of modern leisure is usually left to ‘leisure studies’. In their accounts, its roots tend to be in individual choice, freedom and self-determination (Rojek, 2005; 2010). As for the term itself, ‘modern leisure’ is standardly defined as a ‘relatively self-determined activity-experience that falls into one’s economically free-time roles, that is seen as leisure by participants, that is psychologically pleasant in anticipation and recollection, that potentially covers the whole range of commitment and intensity, that contains characteristic norms and constraints, and that provides opportunities for recreation, personal growth and service to others’ (Kaplan, 1975: 26).
