Leisure society
The leisure society is a predicted future society that will allow individuals to work far less and have far more leisure time than is normally possible today.
The term leisure society has often been used with reservations, for example:
“While career-related, economic and social advancement once harmonized with individual psychological happiness, for many people part-time and extra-professional roles will become even more important in the future. In this nuanced sense the term leisure society may have a meaning; to be more precise: society of less work-related values. "
A perceived problem in the leisure society is the lack of motivation to pursue higher-level desires , which could be a cause of decadence .
While the leisure society, as in antiquity , could lead to an increase in interest in politics , a panem et circenses mentality has been lamented, namely that time is used for more diversion. So has z. For example, the expansion of sports coverage has resulted in important political or social issues being pushed into the background in the mass media.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Will we see it? A technical and economic future panorama (PDF; 1.1 MB), Helmar Krupp , special print from: Communications from labor market and occupational research, 17th year, ed. by Jutta Allmendinger , 1984, p. 12
- ↑ Arnd Krüger : Cui bono? On the effect of sports journalism. In: Arnd Krüger, Swantje Scharenberg (ed.): How the media prepare sport - selected aspects of sport journalism. Tischler, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-922654-35-5 , pp. 24-65.