ABSTRACT
It is only comparatively recently that leisure has come to be accepted as a legitimate subject for sociological study. There is no single explanation of why leisure should have been admitted so late into the sociological field. Perhaps it is a combination of the low priority given to leisure activities and experiences in a still work-oriented society, a feeling that leisure and its alliterative companion pleasure cannot be a serious subject for study, and the highly personal and subjective nature of the beast.
