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ABSTRACT
Joffre Dumazedier's work has, since the mid-1970s, captured the attention of many of Brazil's students and researchers. His work is examined with reference to the scope of the serious leisure perspective (SLP). Thus, after considering Dumazedier's ideas as they bear on the SLP, the Perspective itself is first presented and then examined for its usefulness in understanding Brazilian leisure. The methodological bases of the two approaches are contrasted. Dumazedier underscored the importance of the leisure activity and its central role in generating satisfaction or fulfilment. A review of the SLP-related Brazilian literature follows. Dumazedier failed to build a research programme on the activity-satisfaction link. By contrast, the SLP given its definition of leisure and its basic conceptual structure of the leisure activity and its accompanying leisure experience (found in the core activity), has been expanded at the very base line of leisure: what people actually do in their free time. The principal advantage of the SLP over other theoretic stances taken over the years towards leisure is its unique status as an “internal” theory. No other general theory of leisure has emerged inductively from purely leisure research.
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Notes on contributor
Robert Stebbins received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1964. He is now Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada, and, recently, the author of Careers in Serious leisure: From dabbler to devotee in search of fulfillment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Stebbins is presently writing a book on the commonsense view of leisure.
Notes
1. This section paraphrases much of the review of the SLP-related literature in Portuguese prepared by de Oliveira and Doll (Citation2014, pp. 13–17).
2. See also de de Oliveira and Doll (Citation2012).