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observe is activity of people. There are activities in working time and in leisure time. As the
topic of this thesis introduced, leisure activities are focused on.
The role of lifestyle for human activity refers to the role of a pretty active that lifestyle
reflects the progress of society. This effect can be shown in that it promotes social
development in the direction of progress. The initiative to build good lifestyles for residents
of a society is to create the driving force for human development. This can be absorbed
from education as well as from other social forces. Therefore, to better understand these it
is necessary to have a closer look at leisure activities and their determining factors.
3.2.5.1 Concept of leisure
The concept of leisure is seen as the socially acceptable antithesis of the concept of work.
Researchers have studied working conditions and labor resources since the times of ancient
Greece. Then later, they recognized that there remained the non-working time.
Most researchers “have tended to explain leisure as the antithesis of work” (VOSS
1967: 91). For the original purpose of analyzing economic data it is necessary to define the
work-leisure relationship.
The word ‘leisure’ can be used to refer to leisure time, leisure activities or the state of mind
of being at leisure. It is usually the activities (or the equipment needed to take part) that are
being marketed. However, as the activity takes place in ‘leisure time’ and provides the
participant with a ‘leisure experience’, it is important to understand what distinguishes
these from other kinds of time and experiences (MORGAN 1996: 2-3).
The three terms: leisure time, spare time and free time are synonyms. Hence, this review
includes most of the important ideas of time related to leisure.
3.2.5.2 Features of Leisure activities
Leisure time occurs, and leisure activities take place, when we are free not only from the
necessities of work, but also from the obligations of family and social duties (MORGAN
1996: 21). It is not however always obvious whether an activity is leisure or obligate.
Figure 3.4 shows three different, but overlapping time categories.
Time budget of an individual is constant within the daily unit of twenty four hours.
Working time is time an employee works for his/ her income.
Time for obligating tasks includes time for domestic activities (sleeping, eating,
drinking, etc.) and tasks as position in their own family and community (such as:
house works, taking care their children, and social tasks).
The time left is leisure time or spare time, in which one can decide what one wants
to do.
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