In what sense do we consider leisure as a social problem for the mass in contemporary society? In an attempt to answer it, four categories of leisure society are constructed and examined. Leisure society is a concept applied to the whole society from the viewpoint of leisure activities. It contains four typologies : (1) Leisure non-necessary society, where leisure is not needed as a part of social life system because the work of the society contains the components of play (consummatory act) as well as instrumentality. (2) Distorted two-facet leisure society, where leisure is possessed by the upper class only while the lower class is specialized to a little more instrumentalized works. (3) Leisure suppressed society, where lesure is completely suppressed in order to achieve the societal goal, ie., modernization. (4) Leisure prospering society, where the mass get leisure and its chances owing to the social justification and economic affluence. After examining them, the diagram on leisure industry vs passive mass is drawn as today's social problem. Now, we must seek for the possibilities to transcend this diagram from a value-relational standpoint. They are following : (1) voluntarity of play, (2) mass having aristocratic orientation, (3) leisure as an impetus of social solidarity, (4) recurrence to commune on denying leisure activities dialectically. These four possibilities, as well as the diagram, are sociologically important components to determine "the domain of leisure" in contemporary society, Hence is the need for the sociology of leisure to achive a new and meaningful "leisure society".