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LOISIROLOGIE [1 record]

Record 1 2015-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Organized Recreation (General)
  • Sociology of Recreation
DEF

The science of man's recreative use of leisure dealing with the acts, states, and agents of recreation, and investigating the forces and effects of recreation; that body of knowledge concerned with past, present, and future of the recreation movement, with man's use, misuse, and/or abuse of leisure.

Key term(s)
  • recreation science
  • recreation sciences

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Loisirs organisés (Généralités)
  • Sociologie des loisirs
DEF

[...] étude approfondie de l'homme et du loisir.

CONT

Département de récréologie. Le programme [...] examine le phénomène social du loisir, le comportement de l'individu dans le monde du loisir, le développement des services en loisir et l'impact écologique que cela entraîne.

Spanish

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