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For example, A is only free to download free digitalized music on the internet because suppliers have provided and maintained websites and workers maintain electricity power. Second, and to bring the issue to the subject of global inequality, leisure activities in the affluent Western societies are often resourced by the low-wage, high-work economies of the developing world. For example, Ritzer (2004: 17) notes that the leisure multinational Nike employs over 100,000 in Indonesia to manufacture shoes.
However, the Action approach also seeks to overhaul A&B analysis by abanding the notion of individuals and formations as autonomous agents and recasting them as consistently and indelibly social actors. An autonomous agent is an individual that acts unilaterally to pursue its ends. A social actor is a subject that bears social characteristics and is simultaneously both enabled and constrained by them. The revised form of A&B analysis encourages us to examine relationships of power in terms of the motivation of actors, the location of trajectories of behaviour and the context of action.
We move on to new challenges in order to test and enhance our competence and through achieving fulfilment our sense of autonomy is enhanced. The second distinction is that leisure occurs in a social context. This may seem to be an unremarkable observation but it is peculiar how the general mindset of pyschologism tends towards solipsism. Iso-Ahola maintains that individuals search for perceived freedom in a social context and that they gain intrinsic reward by competing with others to achieve optimal satisfaction.