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Time for Life
John P. Robinson · 1997
72/100
👍 Worth It
Robinson and Godbey's time-diary research is some of the most rigorous empirical work ever done on how Americans actually spend their hours, and the counterintuitive finding that free time has grown rather than shrunk genuinely changed how sociologists talk about leisure. The data predates smartphones by a decade, so some conclusions need updating, and the mix of academic rigor and pop generalization can grate — but as a foundation for understanding time use, this is still worth reading alongside more recent scholarship.
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substance78
craft68
originality80
accuracy70
hype72
age-fit75
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict72
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