Fun and Games and Higher Education
The Lonely Crowd Revisited
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897071311
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662091
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $23.99
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Description
Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan–all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.
About the author
Randle W. Nelsen has taught sociology in Canada and the United States for fifty years. He has written extensively on higher education, professionalism and bureaucratic work, and popular culture. He is the author of Fun & Games & Higher Education: The Lonely Crowd Revisited and Life of the Party: A Study in Sociability, Community, and Social Inequality.