Barbara Adam 
Timewatch [EPUB ebook] 
The Social Analysis of Time

In this book the author moves beyond the time of clocks and calendars in order to study time as embedded in social interactions, structures, practices and knowledge, in artefacts, in the body, and in the environment. Adam suggests ways not merely to deconstruct but to reconstruct both common-sense and social science understanding.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction.

1. ‘My’ Time, ‘Our’ Time, ‘Other’ Time.

2. Of Time and Health, Life and Death.

3. Education: Learning the Habits of Clock Time.

4. The Time Economy of Work Relations.

5. Global Times and the Electronic Embrace.

6. The Times of Global Environmental Change.

7. The ‘Temporal Turn’: Mapping the Challenge for Social
Science.

Coda.

References.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.