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Arguments for discontinuation
of "Freizeit/Leisure Psychology"
The dualisms of the periods of industrialization
are no longer true in a post-industrial society:
work - free
time
factory/office
- home
alienated
- non-alienated
earning money
- spending money
middle age
working - young/old non-working
externally
determinated - internally determinated
pressure to
use time efficiently - freedom to be lazy
Both the ideas of class-orientated leisure behavior
and life-style approaches fail to explain individual
behavior over short- or long-time periods.
Instead a psychology of "everyday life"
seems to be more promising to understand post-industrial
behavior. (see Franke/Hammerich 2001 for this argument
for "Alltagssoziologie")
Tourism, time spend during holidays, is however
clearly not "everyday life", Tourism Psychology
is achieving insights into a special human behavior
if not mixed with other features.
Therefore it is necessary to separate Tourism Psychology
from Leisure Psychology.
Do
you agree?
  
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