Social status differentiation of leisure activities variation over the weekend – Approaching the voraciousness thesis by a sequence complexity measure

Georgios Papastefanou () and Jonathan Gruhler ()
Additional contact information
Georgios Papastefanou: GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Jonathan Gruhler: GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, 2014, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Sullivan and Katz-Gerro (2007) as well as Katz-Gerro and Sullivan (2010) argues that engaging in a variety ofleisure activities with high frequency is a distinct feature of omnivorous cultural consumption. And like omniv-orousness it bears a status-distinctive characteristic. The authors reported, that high status social categories show a more voracious leisure time-use pattern, i.e. engage in a greater number of activities with higher frequency over the period of one week. In this paper we are examining the voraciousness thesis by utilizing a newly proposed measure of activities variety, namely the sequence complexity index, which is developed by Gabadinho et al., 2011. Using data from German Time Use Survey (2000/2001) we focus on cultural leisure activities reportedfor the weekend. Our results show that complexity as a measure of time-related variety captures significant social differentiation of leisure activities over the weekend. But our complexity-based findings do not support that, that voraciousness understood as high levels of time used for varied leisure activities is also significant at weekend. Beyond that the results support the assumption, that there is social structural framing of a Saturday, where gender, age and marital statues effects on leisure variation come into effect.

Keywords: Time use; leisure; social inequality; complexity; time pressure; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 D19 J17 Z1 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://eijtur.org/pdf/volumes/eIJTUR-11-1-1_Papastefanou_Gruhler.pdf#page=2 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:leu:journl:2014:vol11:issue1:p1-12

Access Statistics for this article

electronic International Journal of Time Use Research is currently edited by Joachim Merz, Jonathan Gershuny and Andrew S. Harvey

More articles in electronic International Journal of Time Use Research from Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)) and The International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Merz ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).