In Search of the Harried Leisure Class in Contemporary Society: Time-Use Surveys and Patterns of Leisure Time Consumption

This article aims to discuss Thorstein Veblen's perspective about the behavior of waste or excessive consumption by the leisure class. This article uses the library research to understanding the perspective of Veblen's theory of consumption. We review Veblen's work, The Theory of the Leisure Class, as the main note complemented by relevant books and journals to support this study. The leisure class in this regard act deliberately to display their wealth. The newly rich group flaunted the luxury of their life with a motive to accommodate their desire for social respect and social status. The leisure class realizes their social actions through conspicuous leisure time consumption and conspicuous consumption of goods characterized by imitative and emulative behavior among the actors involved in it. The conspicuous consumption behavior produces élite taste which in turn has a social impact that affects the class behavior of the lower strata.AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan sudut pandang Thorstein Veblen dalam melihat perilaku konsumsi berlebihan yang dilakukan oleh kelas sosial tertentu dalam masyarakat. Studi ini menggunakan metode kajian pustaka dalam memahami perspektif teori konsumsi Veblen. Data dalam artikel ini bersumber dari karya-larya Veblen sendiri, The Theory of the Leisure Class, serta buku-buku dan jurnal-jurnal yang relevan dalam mendukung artikel ini. Perilaku ini rupanya lahir dari sebuah konteks sosial dimana kelompok orang kaya baru mencoba mengakomodasi hasrat mereka akan penghargaan sosial dan status sosial. Hal ini diwujudkan melalui konsumsi waktu luang mencolok dan konsumsi barang mencolok yang ditandai dengan perilaku imitatif dan emulatif diantara aktor-aktor yang terlibat di dalamnya. Perilaku konsumsi mencolok menghasilkan selera elite yang selanjutnya meluas dan berdampak secara sosial dimana mempengaruhi perilaku kelas dari strata yang lebih rendah

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Marital Status and Mothers’ Time Use: Childcare, Housework, Leisure, and Sleep

10.31235/osf.io/4xz8q ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Joanna Pepin ◽

Liana C Sayer ◽

Lynne Casper

Keyword(s):

Marital Status ◽

Time Use ◽

Leisure Time ◽

Demographic Characteristic ◽

Doing Gender ◽

Mothers And Fathers ◽

Never Married ◽

Time Poverty ◽

Married Mothers ◽

Time Use Surveys

Assumptions that single mothers are “time-poor” compared with married mothers are ubiquitous, but variation in mothers’ time use is less studied than differences between mothers and fathers. We use the 2003-2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to examine marital status variation in mothers’ time spent in housework, childcare, leisure, and sleep. We find no difference in time spent on childcare between mothers, suggesting that behavioral propensities to engage in childcare are similar for all mothers; children’s needs are immutable. Married mothers do more housework and spend less time sleeping than all other mothers. Never married and cohabiting mothers have significantly more leisure time than married mothers, although this time is mostly spent watching television. Differences in demographic characteristic explain two-thirds of the variance in sedentary leisure time between married and never married mothers. These results provide no support for the time poverty thesis but offer some support for the doing gender perspective.

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Cohorts and reading time on the basis of the Finnish time use data 1979–2009

Finnish Journal of Social Research ◽

10.51815/fjsr.110716 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 15-23

Author(s):

Timo Toivonen

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Leisure Time ◽

Reading Time ◽

Cohort Effect ◽

Age Effect ◽

The Internet ◽

Period Effect ◽

Time Reading ◽

Watching Tv ◽

Time Use Surveys

One of the most striking trends in leisure time reading is that the time devoted to reading has decreased. This is also evident on the basis of the longitudinal analysis of the Finnish Time Use Surveys from the years 1979, 1987, 1999, and 2009. In addition to the period effect, there seem to be a positive age effect and a positive cohort effect. Older people read more, as do older cohorts. At first glance, the decline in reading time seems to be mainly due to time devoted to computer and/or the Internet use and time devoted to watching TV. Control variables, such as time used for paid and domestic work, do not change the results. However, time devoted to computer use and time used for reading do not correlate, and only in extreme cases – when watching TV or reading is excessive – do time used for watching TV and time used for reading correlate negatively. There is a strong interaction between age and cohort: cohorts which read less when they are young, read even more when they grow older than cohorts whichread more when they are young. This seemed to be due for better education of younger cohorts.

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Time use surveys in Poland

Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ◽

10.3233/sju-1988-5205 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 159-168

Author(s):

Jan Kordos

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Time Use Surveys

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Two-way commuting: Asymmetries from time use surveys

Journal of Transport Geography ◽

10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103146 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 95 ◽

pp. 103146

Author(s):

José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal ◽

José Alberto Molina ◽

Jorge Velilla

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Time Use Surveys

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Simultaneous activities in the household and residential electricity demand in Spain

Time & Society ◽

10.1177/0961463x16656867 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 175-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jacopo Torriti ◽

Isabel Santiago

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Time Use ◽

Electricity Demand ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Policy Studies ◽

Time Use Survey ◽

Residential Electricity ◽

Spanish Time Use Survey ◽

Time Use Surveys ◽

Research And Policy

Recent research and policy studies on the low-carbon future highlight the importance of flexible electricity demand. This might be problematic particularly for residential electricity demand, which is related to simultaneous consumers’ practices in the household. This paper analyses issues of simultaneity in residential electricity demand in Spain. It makes use of the 2011 Spanish Time Use Survey data with comparisons from the previous Spanish Time Use Survey and the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys. Findings show that media activities are associated with the highest levels of continuity and simultaneity, particularly in the early and late parts of the evening during weekdays.

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Leisure participation and time-use surveys: Canada.

Free time and leisure participation: international perspectives ◽

10.1079/9780851996202.0041 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 41-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Zuzanek

Keyword(s):

Time Use ◽

Leisure Participation ◽

Time Use Surveys

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What do people do before going to bed? A study of bedtime procrastination using time use surveys

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleep/zsz267 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Sun Ju Chung ◽

Hyeyoung An ◽

Sooyeon Suh

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Time Use ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

Social Activity ◽

Sleep Diary ◽

Negatively Associated ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Bedtime Procrastination ◽

Time Use Surveys ◽

External Reasons

Abstract Study Objectives Bedtime procrastination (BP) is defined as going to bed later than intended despite absence of external reasons. This study investigated sleep and psychological factors associated with BP in young adults, and further compared how high and low BP groups spend their time over 24 h and also 3 h prior to bedtime using time use surveys. Methods Young adults (N = 106) from the community were classified as either high (n = 54) or low (n = 52) BP group based on the Bedtime Procrastination Scale. All participants were asked to complete questionnaires on insomnia, depression, anxiety, stress, and chronotype, in addition to keeping a 7-day sleep diary and completing time use surveys over 48 h. Results Participants were 61.3% female, mean age 22.7 (±2.89) years old. Individuals in the high BP group reported significantly more depression, anxiety, and insomnia, went to bed later, woke up later, and had more eveningness tendencies compared to the low BP group. Results from the time use surveys revealed that the high BP group spent significantly more time engaging in leisure and social activity with the majority of time spent using media over 24 h compared to the low BP group. Finally, the high BP group spent on average approximately 451% (or 61 min) more time per day on their smartphone 3 h prior to bedtime compared to the low BP group. Conclusions Our results suggest that BP is negatively associated with sleep and mood, and should be considered a serious health-interfering behavior.

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