Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada.   

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Serious Leisure Perspective. - Chapter 2. The Essential SLP: Foundational Concepts.- Part 1. Micro Level. - Chapter 3. Leisure, Attitudes and Identity. - Chapter 4. Individual Participation in Leisure. - Part 2. Meso Level. - Chapter 5. Small-Scale Social Organizations.- Chapter 6. Middle-Range Processes.- Part 3. Macro Level. - Chapter 7. Social Institutional.- Chapter 8. Culture and Social Change.- Part 4. Theory and Practice. - Chapter 9. The SLP in Practice.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: The Conceptual Composition of the SLP.