Toward Meta-recreation Research

Abstract

Most of the collective body of recreation and leisure research fails to either realistically define a researchable problem or to adequately use existing social science theory of methodology. One result has been the continuing dearth of imaginative theory in recreation and leisure which directly and indirectly, limits both scholarly and applied endeavors. A conceptual approach for more sophisticated research, with its roots in Goedel's Theorem and the geographic concept of mapping, is offered. This suggested approach is termed meta-recreation research. A simple example of meta-recreation research is offered utilizing Wolfe's General Theory of Surrogates.