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`This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan UniversityWritten with the needs of today's student in mind, the SAGE Key Concepts series provides accessible, authoritative and reliable coverage of the essential issues in a range of disciplines. Written in each case by experienced and respected experts in the subject area, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages understanding without sacrificing the level of detail and critical evaluation essential to convey the complexity of the issues.Key Concepts in Leisure Studies:• Provides a student-friendly guide to the key debates in leisure studies• Reflects recent developments in the field, encompassing related work in media studies, cultural studies, sports studies and sociology • Cross-references each 1500 word exposition to other concepts in the field• Offers definitions, section outlines and further reading guidance for independent learning• Is supported by the author's website http:/www.arasite.org/keyconc.html• Is essential reading for undergraduates and NVQ students in leisure studies.
Articulation
Articulation
A process by which concepts, meanings, interpretations, or practices get joined together into politically and culturally meaningful sequences or structures. Sequences take place over time, while structures refer to elements joined together across space, as it were. A particular way of joining together such elements forgramsciananalysis.
Section Outline:General mechanisms of cultural articulation fromsemiotics. Particulargramscian(CCCS, Stuart Hall) arguments on modern marxist analyses of youth cultures and political ideologies. Problems and incoherencies.
This kind of joining together is a crucial way in which human beings make sense of their world. In brief, any new event is joined together with more familiar events in order to make sense of the new. A number of different perspectives in sociology and psychology have pursued this basic insight in a number of ways.
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