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Article: Using leisure services to build social capital in later life: classical traditions, contemporary realities, and emerging possibilities.
- Article from:
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Introduction
In this paper, we will explore the prospect that leisure produces social capital, particularly for retirees, and leisure services can be prominent in expanding such activity. After reviewing the philosophical and historical background for considering leisure in this manner, we will examine prospects for people who are retired to become civically engaged through social-capital-generating activities, in particular political discourse, and also contemporary aspects of post-retirement living that, in varying degrees, reflect a semblance of classical leisure ideals. Finally, we will turn to the redesign and reorientation of some aspects of community ...