Browsing by Subject "leisure time"

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Czas wolny – o codziennych i niecodziennych scenariuszach doświadczania
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Mroczkowska, Dorota Irena
The presentation of leisure time as time spent away from work does not fully reflect contemporary reality, in which working time and leisure are blurring due to factors such as flexible working hours or mobile technologies. Furthermore, individuals who engage in two or more activities at the same time (multitasking) or those indicating the multidimensional nature of leisure are becoming more common. As a result, traditional quantitative methodologies based on the work-leisure dichotomy are unsuitable for studying leisure. Based on interpretative methodology and research method triangulation, the text presents an experiential perspective on the approach to leisure. This approach results in a way of thinking about leisure that rejects the traditional work-leisure dichotomy in favour of subjective experience, resulting in a variety of forms, styles, and ways of experiencing leisure time in a changing social context.
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Pułapka czy dobrodziejstwo immersyjności w bieganiu długodystansowym? Czas wolny aktywnie wypełniany
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Prüfer, Paweł Edward
The article describes, explains and interprets the phenomenon of long-distance running through the prism of the immersion category. This concept is rather absent in social sciences, including sociology, therefore an attempt to define it, was made. A search of materials dedicated to the phenomenon of running, posted mainly on Italian and Polish websites was used in this analysis. The method of describing the interpretation of the discourses and content contained in the mottos dedicated to running was applied. First of all, the theory of relationality and the thesis about placing the individual in the space of two social mechanisms: determinism and individual abilities were taken into account. The problem was developed and updated both in its specific cases (narratives and experiences of runners, the author’s personal experience with the phenomenon of running, lofty and distanced opinions about running) as well as in an universal scope (descriptions and interpretations present in various studies dedicated to long-distance running). Based on the carried out analyses, it was concluded in the case of runners, that the phenomenon of running is both liberating, reconstructing their biographies, and immersive, i.e. absorbing, »captivating«.