LEISURE AND THE MODULARIZATION OF DAILY-LIFE

The modularization of daily life refers to the growing exchangeability of forms of spending time in the unwinding of daily life (daily paths and life paths) due to increases in the scale of the supply of standa rdized time-units - filled with more or less predictable, calculable a nd re-combinable activities - and the simultaneous growth in the oppor tunities for individual actors to choose from this supply and reflexiv ely organize their daily lives. After having introduced this concept, its relation to leisure is discussed. A distinction is made between ha ving leisure and ways of spending it. In the first case, it is argued that there is no monolithic leisure area, where everybody can do whate ver he or she likes. Rather, there exist different leisure-scapes, des ignating differences in the freedoms people are entitled to, depending on the differences in sources of income. In the second case, the disc ussion focuses on the relation between leisure and consumption. Partic ular attention is given to how the search for moral satisfaction shape s the ways people assemble time-modules in their daily life paths.