ABSTRACT
A number of social scientific concepts have emerged over the years that, each in its own way, helps synthesize the three forms, thereby making for a truly integrated, theoretic perspective. This chapter discusses the following synthesizing concepts and bundles of concepts: organization (groups, associations, social worlds, etc.); community (family; work; gender; social class; contributions, including civil society, citizen involvement, and social capital; deviance); history; lifestyle (including discretionary time commitment, optimal leisure lifestyle); and culture (commitment, obligation, values, selfishness). The chief point to be made is that leisure, whichever its form, is often organized in one or more of several ways. As with serious leisure the project-based type is separate from casual leisure. Where casual leisure becomes the precursor of either of the other two, it would appear to occur largely through the practice of dabbling, or dilettantism.
