Abstract
The purpose of this article is to give leisure studies a new lease on its conceptual life by showing how exploratory research can help eliminate theoretical stagnation there, which is now admitted by many specialists to be a main problem. First, social science exploration is defined and distinguished from the related processes of serendipity, confirmation, and qualitative research. Then, after considering the general character of exploratory research, the discussion shifts to the question of why there has been so little of it in the leisure sciences. Finally, the ideas presented to this point about theory and methodology and the observations of John Lofland about analytic ethnography, when considered together, suggest that exploration can be understood as falling within the positivist tradition in both leisure studies in particular and the social sciences in general.
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