Typology of Leisure Behavior

In the era of the “civilization of leisure”, the leisure time is increasingly perceived not as a necessary “complement” to the people’s production and social life, but as an autonomous social institution, which has an independent meaning and value. Meanwhile, the leisure activities often characterize the human’s personality much more accurate than their professional activities. However, under the infl uence of civilization trends, the essence of the leisure activities is changing: the types of leisure are getting mixed and fi lled with new content. The semantic ambiguity of the leisure activities makes their content diffi cult to be analyzed and requires changes in the research approaches and tools. The article shows that the understanding of the changing essence of the cultural and leisure activities and stra tegies is possible, using modern econometric methods, through the study of large amounts of sociological data. Analyzing the results of sociological surveys for a number of years, the author reveals some statistical regularities in the forms of leisure people prefer and discovers the integral factors that could explain those regularities. As a result, the article proposes an original typology of the leisure behavior, which refl ects the inner connection between the various kinds of leisure and identi-fi es the most common strategies of the leisure activities. The study shows that people’s attitude to their leisure activities, in particular to the art, is not random. The study is based on the unique data arrays on the sociological surveys of Russia’s urban population.

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