Summary: Leisure Studies

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• 1.1.1 Leisure in pre-industrial times

• What transformation did the British society experience in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century?

  They transformed from an essential aggrarian society into an industrial nation with far reaching social, economical and political consequences

• Which sports which were held in taverns were popular in the pre industrial times?

  Animal sports like dog fighting, bull baiting and cock fighting

• Why did work and play often intermingle during the pre industrial times?

  Due to seasonal cycles and the agricultural and ecclesiatical calendars.

• Which leisure activities were popular in the traditional and pre industrial society?

  Drinking, revelry at the tavern and religious activities like christenings, weddings and funerals

• Which capital next to other capitals in europe became an important place for wealthy people to endulge in higher class leisure activity and parade their position?

  London

• 1.1.2 Leisure and the industrial revolution

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• How did the nature of work change for people during the industrial revolution?

  It changed from aggriculture and small scale manufacturing industry to large scale development of manufacturing industry and its centralisation in factories.

• Where were these factories located? And why there?

  Specific sites which had acces to power - water power and later on steam power as result of burning coal

• Because the factory work needed structure to be more efficient - factory owners made men, woman and childeren worked long working hours. What was the result?

  Leisure became a counter to work

• What did the factory owners worry about concerning leisure time?

  Drunkeness and absenteeism

• What is rational recreation?

  It was an alternative form of leisure that replaced going to the pub or fair. It was an instrument for social control. This form of leisure concerned more enduring virtues like knowledge and self-enrichments.