Timewatch (eBook)

The Social Analysis of Time

Barbara Adam (Autor)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
216 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-6554-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.

Inhalt

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.

Rezensionen

"Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of the
authorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. She
shows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key with
the problems we face in the risk society. This highly original book
not only points out the problems but also makes valuable
suggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory."
Ulrich Beck, University of Munich

"This book will delight many, including many at late-school or
early-university level; since Adam has managed to write at a level
accessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducing
complexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded from
texts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is a
considerable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adam
accomplishes it most deftly and successfully." Fiona Mackie,
LaTrobe University

"This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly,
reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... Barbara
Adam's Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself,
it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not just
read, to think through how we can all 'do things with time'."
Time and Society

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropogeographie • Geographie • Geography • Gesellschaftstheorie • Human geography • Social Theory • Sociology • Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-6554-3 / 0745665543
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6554-2 / 9780745665542