The Importance Of Leisure And Recreational Activities

In a society where time and freedom come easily accessible to people, there is still a range of factors that influence people’s ability to create decisions surrounding leisure and recreational activities. An individual’s agency is challenged everyday by society’s structure, including the social, economic and environmental factors that affect one’s limit of true agency. Social factors are one of the greatest challenges to one’s agency, depending on multiple interconnected influences such as that from an economical standpoint. In addition, the environment that individuals are in plays a role in determining allocation of time, whether towards leisure or recreational activities. The social, economic and environmental factors around us cause the decision making surrounding leisure and recreation to be susceptible to suggestion.
To begin, social factors play an integral role when deciding the time allocated towards leisure and recreational activities. The stigma surrounding leisure and recreation is large in a societal aspect, especially within an academic community, one which university students are a part of. Due to this stigma, there is a certain resistance to allotting a significant amount of time towards leisure and recreational activities. Personally, there …show more content…
On the other hand, The Government of Canada (2016) clearly outlines the expectation of inmates regarding leisure and recreational activities. When in prison, the agency of an individual is stripped away to make room for the structure that is needed to facilitate those who disobeyed those rules and laws that govern a society. In a situation such as this where the social aspect of society removes one’s agency, there is a lack of personal decision making towards leisure and recreational