TY - GEN
T1 - To Have Fun for Sharing, to Share for Having Fun: Meanings and Practices of Leisure in Italy in a Time of Crisis
AU - Lo Verde, Fabio Massimo
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In the period between 2008 and 2015, Italy has undergone a severe economiccrisis derived from an on-going process of low economic growth, employmentshortage, new social urgencies. These phenomena have been accompanied by asignificant (and in some ways extremely innovating) change in people’s lifestylesand modes of consuming leisure time. As a matter of fact, a larger attention hasbeen paid to the “quality” of leisure time, considered as a time to share, to createand re-discover authentic social relationships whose quality is precisely determinedby the level of involvement in practices shared with one’s own social circle.The paper intends to offer some empirical evidence, taken from structural dataconcerning the use of leisure time in Italy, showing how the conceptualization ofleisure time is changing in the light of these significant socio-economic changes.
AB - In the period between 2008 and 2015, Italy has undergone a severe economiccrisis derived from an on-going process of low economic growth, employmentshortage, new social urgencies. These phenomena have been accompanied by asignificant (and in some ways extremely innovating) change in people’s lifestylesand modes of consuming leisure time. As a matter of fact, a larger attention hasbeen paid to the “quality” of leisure time, considered as a time to share, to createand re-discover authentic social relationships whose quality is precisely determinedby the level of involvement in practices shared with one’s own social circle.The paper intends to offer some empirical evidence, taken from structural dataconcerning the use of leisure time in Italy, showing how the conceptualization ofleisure time is changing in the light of these significant socio-economic changes.
KW - Italy
KW - Leisure time
KW - Italy
KW - Leisure time
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/285012
UR - https://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/files/isa2016_forum_abstract_book.pdf
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 420
EP - 420
BT - THE FUTURES WE WANT: GLOBAL SOCIOLOGY AND THE STRUGGLES FOR A BETTER WORLD
ER -