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Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research
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How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address these and other questions, bring fieldwork alive ...
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Inside the Sports Pages
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Mark Douglas Lowes, Dr. Robert A Stebbins (Foreword by)
Inside The Sports Pages Explores The Working World Of Contemporary Sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, athletes, and media relations people who inhabit it. In this first comprehensive study of the work routines and professional ideologies involved in the manufacture of sports news, Mark Douglas Lowes presents a detailed ...
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Barbershop Singer
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Between Work and Leisure: A Study of the Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
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Dr. Robert A Stebbins
Occupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing work, where the sense of achievement is high and the core activity, or set of tasks, is endowed with such intense appeal that the line between work and leisure is virtually erased. This volume examines conditions that attract ...
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Commitment to Deviance: The Nonprofessional Criminal in the Community
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Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time
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Dr. Robert A Stebbins
"Serious Leisure" offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they ...
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A Dictionary of Nonprofit Terms and Concepts
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David Horton Smith, Dr. Robert A Stebbins, Michael A Dover
This reference work defines more than 1,200 terms and concepts that have been found useful in past research and theory on the nonprofit sector. The entries reflect the importance of associations, citizen participation, philanthropy, voluntary action, nonprofit management, volunteer administration, leisure, and political activities of nonprofits. ...
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Sociology: The Study of Society
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Volunteering as Leisure / Leisure as Volunteering
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Dr. Robert A Stebbins (Editor), M Graham (Editor)
Examines critical aspects of contemporary volunteerism, from the perspective of a variety of volunteering contexts.
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Franco Calgarians
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Amateurs: Margin Between Work & Leisure
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Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving Into a Positive Sociology
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Dr. Robert A Stebbins
This book looks into how, why, and when people pursue those things in life that they desire, the things they do to make their existence attractive, worth living. Robert A, Stebbins calls this 'Positive Sociology', the study of what people do to organize their lives such that they become substantially rewarding, satisfying, and fulfilling. For most ...
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New Directions in the Theory and Research of Serious Leisure
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Dr. Robert A Stebbins
This study pulls together the findings of Dr Stebbin's research programme on leisure. It presents his basic theory on "serious leisure" as well as his analysis of "casual leisure", identifying "deviant" leisure as falling into either group.
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Teachers and Meaning: Definitions of Classroom Situations
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