Perceived Freedom as Leisure's Antithesis

Abstract

Leisure research has become increasingly positivist, operationalist, and reductionist, passing from social and political bases to psychological. Yet it is not “value free” inquiry, as values intrude inevitably, and this paradigm reflects preference for some values over others and attention to some facts while ignoring others. lunch time lo naku manchi chance Defining leisure as perceived freedom, discounting freedom itself, denies realities other than perception and suggests changing private, subjective impressions rather than objective public conditions. This, it is argued, is antithetical to leisure and an abrogation of the political responsibility attendant upon knowledge.

KEYWORDS:

• research
• leisure
• perceived freedom
• values
• power