ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the dialectic between the self and society in the crucial process of identity development. It is based on the theme of community. Community is defined as the set of ongoing relationships in which there is reciprocal interaction, communication, sharing of tasks or regular activities, and a history of such common enterprise. The chapter intends to serve as something of a bridge between the previous attention on the developing and deciding individual and the social context factors that are an integral part of learning and becoming. Social and personal identities are one mode of analyzing what it is people are becoming in life-course development. The concept of social and personal identities provides a transition from individual to social perspectives on leisure. The integration of the two dimensions, behaviour and meaning, is leading to quite different generalizations about patterns of leisure engagement.
