Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray
A memoir of a childhood, spend in an isolated Georgia community of Crackers, that grew into a passion to save the vanishing longleaf pine ecocystem in which she was raised.
Read Time: ~5.8 hr
Loisir et société
by Gilles Pronovost (1993)
About this book
Synthèse et analyse sociologique sur le loisir moderne; c'est en même temps une étude de la société québécoise à travers le prisme du loisir. Cinq niveaux d'analyse: 1. Le système culturel: les rapports à la culture - 2. Les activités de loisir - 3. Les acteurs: les personnes âgées, les travailleurs en loisir, les associations - 4. Les structures sociales: les budgets-temps; l'équipement et le budget des ménages; les structures publiques et para-publiques - 5. Les institutions sociales: la famille; travail et loisir; les médias.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreLoisir et société Lead Character
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