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Books By Robert A. Stebbins - Author
Robert A. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. He has taught at Presbyterian College (1964-65), Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland (1965-73), the Univ. of Texas at Arlington (1973-76), and the Univ. of Calgary (1976-1999). In 2000 he was appointed Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary. Stebbins served as President of the Social Science Federation of Canada (1991-1992), after having served as President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (1988-1989). Stebbins' principal contribution to the field of leisure studies is his "serious leisure perspective." It revolves around a typology of leisure, based on the ways people experience and are motivated to pursue particular free-time activities. From concatenated qualitative/exploratory research on 21 different amateur, hobbyist, and volunteer activities, he inductively generated over a period of 32 years the aforementioned perspective. Today its three forms - serious, casu
