Someland: A Case Study

Leisure at the turn of the twentieth century was a new found type of freedom and entertainment, not only for the children, but for the entire family. It was a way for numerous families to spend quality time together but in a more modern and convenient way. Entertainment before the twentieth century consisted of household entertainment, such as board games, and “backyard games” like tennis, and football amongst others. When compared to leisure in the twentieth century, many of these activities were seen as “outdated”, as more and more people started to adopt the new ways of entertainment. Some examples were the openings of catalogs, sports, cinemas, amusement parks.

In today’s society, people often choose to watch T.V. over other activities. They read less, spend less time outside, and spend less time interacting with their family and friends. People often eat their meals while watching T.V. One research study done by The National Endowment for the Arts and reported in Information Please Database showed some alarming trends: People age 15-24 spend 1hour and 57 minutes each weekday watching T.V., people age 35-44 spend 1 hour and 53 minutes each weekday watching T.V., and people age 55-64 spend 2 hours and 35 minutes each weekday watching T.V. All of these age groups spent even more time viewing T.V. on the weekends than they did during the week. This study shows that people spend a great deal of time “vegetating” in front of a T.V. screen rather than interacting with others or using their minds to think.

The following is an analysis on three different behaviors observed 5 different times for ten minutes. The behaviors observed were: frequency of getting a drink, phone usage, and talking. The purpose for choosing frequency of getting a drink was; you hear that Chipotle is always crazy busy, but how many customers actually buy drinks? The purpose for choosing phone usage was; how many opportunities for social interactions are missed due to the fact that everyone is glued to their phones? This sparked the curiosity of how long are people really on their phones during a certain time period. Lastly, is talking. With phone usage being a problem, how long are people actually engaging in social interactions with each other?

I spend around two hours weekly watching TV and over 12 hours on the weekend.

These theories will be useful in determining my underlying motivations behind my choice of media and content and how my experiences help shape the meaning I provide to the former. Although I have a very active lifestyle, media does consume the largest portion of my time. For the sake of this analysis, the table above simply refers to the television shows and movies I watched throughout a week, however it is important to note that in addition, all time spent of the phone, computer, reading and listening to radio also comprise of media consumption.

The brain is incredibly plastic, and, from past research on social interaction, we know that early childhood experience is crucial in developing those parts of the brain that are largely dedicated to social interaction, empathy, and other interpersonal concerns” (239). The Dunbar number is the maximum number of people an average person can have in her social group is 150. This number might change because of the way social media has been growing. We have 150 casual friends, 50 close friends, 15 friends you can turn to for sympathy, and 5 best friends and family.

With time off from war and work people begun to invest their time in leisure activities.

Culture, ethnicity and race affects people's leisure choices in a variety of ways. First of all, culture affects people's leisure choices such as people in the India or Afghanistan are famous for playing cricket. Race and ethnicity also affects my personal leisure choices based on my cultural and religious views. Living in a diverse society, with racists and different ethnic backgrounds we have different views of leisure. Education, income, employment, race and beliefs affect everyone’s leisure choices. For example, more wealthier individuals like to play golf. Golf is considered to a sport for rich people and

Almost everyone has some kind of leisure time whether it is a couple hours or a couple days. What varies is the type of recreational activities people choose to do during that time. Although leisure and recreation is chosen based on ones unique individual interests, there are many sociocultural factors that influence the type of recreational activities we do, when we do it and how often we do it. These factors include political,

The three main social domains in life are work, leisure and home. Coincidentally, people generally spend most of their daily routine activities in these three social domains. Further evidence is presented in Szalai’s article in 1972 as on average Americans spend 16.26 hours of time per day at home, 1.38 hours on the streets or parks and 6.36 in other places (e.g. work). However, it should be noted that the numbers exhibited are from the year 1972 and are most definitely out-dated. In addition, these activities were re-balanced in the post-World War II era, as the focus shifted from household activities to activities in leisure and work domains. More women entered or returned to the work force, travel became cheaper and people spent more time

World entertainment Each of us needs in rest but different people prefer different types of recreation. Many of us spent the biggest part of day in a hurry, in suspense and do a lot of hard work. Relaxation is necessary for our body and it is an integral part of our life, because when we relax our body store energy for the next day. There are various ways how do spend leisure time. Some people prefer active rest.

The concept, “Social Life”, has many different implications within its diversified realm. This area of study is multifaceted, in that, there are many different factors that play into how one defines a social life. This variable has many elements built up into how people interact socially. The complexities of this variable are pertinent to understand how and why social lives vary from person to person.

Culture and leisure are both huge parts of what makes humanity civilized. Humans have been working to find truth in both ideas, so they could truly understand civilization. The definition of leisure was finally established as school and therefore it was understood that leisure was supposed to be a version of intellectual stimulation. From reading Pieper, I understand that leisure represents an activity that leads to the stimulation of the mind. Now with my new understanding of leisure I see that leisure leads to a better understanding of the world, because of the eventual lead to contemplation. To further this concept, I understand that leisure is more than work. After this culture must be explained. Culture is all the things that humanity has done intellectually culminated into one specific civilization. This allows for multiple different cultures even within one’s own culture. To specify on this, the film culture within the culture of Western Civilization. I will be focusing on changing film culture in my proposal.

Cinema-going is one of the most popular out-of-home cultural activities, affecting a serious of social, economic and cultural phenomena in modern societies. Cinemas are considered to be an integral part of cities and they contribute to the definition of a local

At the beginning of this course leisure was a topic I did not give much thought to and I felt like I did not have the time to spare to put much thought into. To me, all leisure meant was having free time to do whatever it is that I wanted to do. But after analyzing my life I noticed that I had surrounded my life with solely work and school and my “free time” was anytime I spent watching television and anytime I slept. However, after taking this course I learned that leisure meant more much than that. Now leisure to me means, as Richard Kraus states, leisure is “time which is not devoted to work or work-connected responsibilities or to other forms of discretionary or unobligated time,” (Olson et al., 2003, 12). The “time” in which Kraus