Shopping as leisure, obligation, and community

Leisure/ Loisir

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 467-474

  Stebbins, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Obligation; Shopping; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005804643     PISSN: 14927713     EISSN: 21512221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2006.9651367     Document Type: Article

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