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This chapter is about the relevance of the concept of class for understanding leisure. Unless prompted, we do not habitually describe our social experience, at work or in leisure, in class terms. There is in any case a world of difference in how a word like ‘class’ is used in everyday language compared with the specialized terminology — some would say jargon — of the social sciences.
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Critcher, C. (2006). A Touch of Class. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_16
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