Questions and CORRECT Answers
Hunter Gatherer - CORRECT ANSWER -circular and seasonal time; more leisure and free time
Ancient Greece - CORRECT ANSWER -peak cultural and philosophical development.
democracy - knowledge and moral conduct.
Socrates - CORRECT ANSWER -ideology of leisure was knowledge and making wise decisions
Plato - CORRECT ANSWER -leisure through developing education, music, gymnastics,
philosophy.
Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER -leisure through life contemplation, responsibility and politics.
Schole.
Ascetism - CORRECT ANSWER -self discipline and hard work, unity.
Schole - CORRECT ANSWER -leisure for 20% of the population, primarily male and elite; use of
free time wisely.
Hsaio yao - CORRECT ANSWER -freedom from hardship, carefree state, self-less contemplation,
intellectual and elite.
Daosim - CORRECT ANSWER -harmony, peace, balance and solitude..
hedonism - CORRECT ANSWER -pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses
Licere - CORRECT ANSWER -to be free
,Ludi - CORRECT ANSWER -public games and festivals
Bread and circuses - CORRECT ANSWER -circus maximus and colosseum
Ancient Rome - CORRECT ANSWER -mass recreation, political freedom, practical notion,
growing middle class, citizens as spectators.
Feudalism - CORRECT ANSWER -peasants, knights, lords, king; political and economic power in
which the people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and use of land in return
Max weber - CORRECT ANSWER -Religion is the central force in social change
Adam Smith - CORRECT ANSWER -interest in every man to live with as much ease as possible.
Karl Marx - CORRECT ANSWER -class distinctions; disparities due to the industrial revolutions.
Veblen - CORRECT ANSWER -- Conspicuous consumption: buying and displaying luxury
goods/services to show economic power, status, or income. Consumption linked to higher status.
Recreation Provision - CORRECT ANSWER -restoration and recovery; extrinsic outcomes (stress
relief, physical fitness, intellectual development).
Leisure in contemporary western society - CORRECT ANSWER -free time, type of activity, special
attitude, psychological state of mind.
Neulinger's Leisure States of Mind - CORRECT ANSWER -Intrinsic & extrinsic +
intrinsic/extrinsic:
pure leisure = intrinsic
pure job = extrinsic
, leisure work = both
leisure job = extrinsic
work-job = both
pure work = intrinsic
Aristotles belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -the goal for all people is eudaimonia
(happiness)
Virtue is necessary for happiness
Kants belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -Happiness is not our purpose.
If God had intended us to be happy, we would have been made to live on instinct.
Russels belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -how to avoid unhappiness; competition,
boredom, fatigue.
Lymbomisky's belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -50% genetics, 40% life circumstances,
10% self-control.
Putnam's belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -too many activities reduces happiness
Nawijin's belief of happiness - CORRECT ANSWER -vacations happier than non-vacationers.
cynicism - CORRECT ANSWER -virtue over pleasure
stoicism - CORRECT ANSWER -indifference to sensation
4 categories of play - CORRECT ANSWER -agon, alea, linx, mimicry
Agon - CORRECT ANSWER -competitive or sport