Postmodernist

• Rojek

  Leisure is less planned

  No longer shaped by their position in society
• Individuals can pick and choose their leisure and are not limited by their biological makeup
• Your identity is created by your leisure
• Bocock

  People are shopping for lifestyles through consumerism

  They can pick and mix their identity
• Products have symbolic significance

  the lifestyle associated with the product is more important than the product
• Evaluation point from parker

  • Relationship between work and leisure
• Opposition

  • Physically demanding jobs
  • Leisure is in opposition to their job
  • Leisure acts as an escape from their demanding job
• Neutrality

  Boring jobs with little work satisfaction

  Cleaners

  Leisure does not have anything to do with their job.

  DIY crafts
• Extension

  Work with high levels of job satisfaction

  Doctors, teachers

  Leisure is an extension of work
• Bauman

  Seduced: Seen as the attractive customer

  Able to take part in consumption

  Financially secure
• Bauman

  Repressed: Low income or lack the knowledge on consumer goods

  They have a devalued identity

  Youth- the repressed youth feel excluded from their peers