1. John Neulinger was a German-American psychologist and Professor Emeritus of psychology at City College of New York.
18 Facts About John Neulinger
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John Neulinger first popularized his ideas in the 1974 book, The Psychology of Leisure.
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John Neulinger was born in Dresden, Germany to Rudolf and Julie John Neulinger nee Konirsch.
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John Neulinger attended the Staatsoberrealgymnasium in Decin, Czechoslovakia as a child, but was taken to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
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John Neulinger received his doctorate in psychology from New York University in 1965.
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John Neulinger married Josephine Levitus on July 22,1950, and later had one son, Ronald.
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From 1964 to 1965, John Neulinger was a research associate for the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.
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John Neulinger was a member of the International Sociological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.
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John Neulinger helped found the Academy of Leisure Sciences and was president of the academy from 1982 to 1983.
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John Neulinger was Director of the Leisure Institute in his home town of Dolgeville, New York, and helped found and chaired the Society for the Reduction of Human Labor.
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The theory is a continuum model of leisure, with the criterion a condition John Neulinger calls perceived freedom.
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John Neulinger described six states: Pure leisure, leisure-work, leisure-job, pure work, work-job, and pure job.
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But, like other social psychological theories of leisure, John Neulinger's theory was criticized for its lack of "discriminant power".
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Nevertheless, John Neulinger's theory exerted considerable influence on the social theory of leisure, and perceived freedom is still a popular concept in leisure studies.
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John Neulinger believed that human civilization could one day look forward to a society based on leisure, a leisure society where technology and science free the average person from concern over subsistence.
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John Neulinger envisioned a world where the very concept of a "job" was no longer plausible, where work would be leisure-oriented.
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John Neulinger's vision was of a society where non-leisure activities form a minimal part of our day, where work would be carried out with meaning and without coercion, freely chosen, self-rewarding, and intrinsically motivating.
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John Neulinger died at home of a heart attack at the age of 67 on June 20,1991, in Dolgeville, New York.