ABSTRACT
Common-sense tells that leisure life in a Derbyshire mining village may have little or nothing in common with leisure life in Stornaway or South Kensington. One way of defining leisure is simply to say that it is non-working time and in common speech the word often means just this, but a conversation with someone about their leisure lives would soon reveal a mass of sub-divisions to each of which a different, and individual, leisure value might be attributed. A factor which might be of more importance to a study of leisure is the incidence of weekend work. There are some interestingly divergent popular images of young adults in our society. The only common ground for images is in the implied suggestion that the young adult group is an active one. If there is disagreement about what it is doing there is at least agreement that it is doing something.
