"Leisure and Consumption": A Comprehensive and Elaborate Work Despite Some Missing Points

Year 2017, Issue: 35, 103 - 108, 25.05.2017

Ozan Eren

Abstract

After
Veblen’s work, Theory of Leisure Class (1899),
“leisure” has become critically important to observe as a sociological
phenomenon. However, increasing importance of consumption patterns in our
global world has inevitably gathered concepts of “leisure” and “consumption”
together. For this reason, Leisure and
Consumption written by Robert Stebbins is a remarkable work while it argues
problematic of unconsciously thinking about “leisure” and “consumption” as
essentially similar processes. The author also questions the degree of
sufficiency of literature about leisure discussions.

Keywords

Leisure, Consumption

References

• STEBBINS, R. A., 1997, Casual Leisure: A Conceptual Statement, London: Routledge.
• STEBBINS, R. A., 2009, Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground/Separate Worlds, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• VEBLEN, T. (1994) [1899], The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. New York: Penguin Books.
• VEBLEN, T., 2007, The Conspicuous Conservation of Leisure Class Culture. In The Theory of the Leisure Class, ed. by Martha Banta, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.