The sociology of time : a critical overview

Šubrt, Jiří 1958- (author.).

Summary: In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term "time," and the various interconnections between time and a broad cluster of topics that create a conceptual labyrinth. Various understandings of time manifest themselves in the context of many individual social problems--there is no single vision in sociology of how to grasp time and address within social theory. This book, therefore, attempts to define an approach to the concept of time and its associated terms (duration, temporality, acceleration, compression, temporal structures, change, historical consciousness, and others). The volume is guided by a critical engagement with three main questions: a) the formation of human understanding of time; b) the functioning of temporal structures at different levels of social reality; c) the role and place of time in general sociological theory.sses (2020).

Record details

ISBN: 9783030832889 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
ix, 282 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Labyrinth of questions and answers : introduction -- Time and the civilizing process -- Time as a social category -- Time and human action -- Time : the key to the analysis of social reality -- The role of time in theoretical systems of sociology and the end of the Twentieth Century -- The time of physics and thermodynamics : (an excursion into the field of natural sciences) -- The sociology of time or temporalized sociology -- Balance and prospects -- Epilogue.