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Chapter 28 - The Sociology of Leisure and Recreation

from Part VII - Culture and Behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

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Robert A. Stebbins
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 275 - 283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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