Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).
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What is the Leisure Experience? Socio-Economic and Cultural Approaches to Leisure Participation and Constraint - Class and Gender Participation and Constraint - Ethnicity, Disability and Age The Emergence of an Institutional Framework for Leisure The UK's Contemporary Institutional Framework for Leisure The Local State and Leisure Provision in the United Kingdom Work and Leisure - Post Fordism and the Changing Nature of Work Work and Leisure: the Leisure Society, Unemployment and Post-Work Globalisation and Leisure: the Consumer Society Globalisation and Leisure: McDisneyization and Post-Tourism
'Drawing upon the best traditions of British and North American Leisure Studies, Shaun Best provides a synthesis of relevant social theory, presents thought provoking inquiry-driven examples and invites students to acquire a better understanding of leisure in today's world' - Professor David Botterill, University of Wales