The Role of Amateur Activities in the Lives of Amateurs in Baseball, Theater, and Archaeology

FAIN: FT-12978-76

Robert Alan Stebbins, PhD
University of Texas, Arlington (Arlington, TX 76019-9800)

To interview and observe 30 amateurs in each of three areas, baseball, theater, and archaeology. The method is that of exploration. The intent is to discover through comparison, new empirically validated categories and dimensions of social life, personal meaning, and personal identity and to develop theory from this base.