This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to
understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "chore"
activities in daily life, and how they are managed in practice.
Drawing on the sociology of everyday life, Stebbins puts forward the
notion of Pondering Everyday Life (PEA), a thinking process/activity
in which we routinely understand, coordinate, organize, remember, and
compare our involvements in work, leisure, and non-work obligations.
This perspective demonstrates how the interrelation between these three
domains helps bring meaning and continuity to everyday life. As a micro-
and meso-level conception that takes into account social, cultural and
historic context, Stebbins contemplates how and what PEA can tell us
about an individual's view of their own life.
Pondering Everyday Life will be of interest to students and scholars
across leisure studies, social psychology, and the sociology of leisure
and work.