Sociology of Waiting

How Americans Wait

Paul Christopher Price (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4071-0 (ISBN)

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In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. It is a key feature within U.S. and other societies; waiting is universal. Sociologically, waiting gets at order and our ability or inability to pause. Crowds cannot rush into concert venues and supermarket clerks cannot check-out customers simultaneously. So, we must wait! In all our waiting, we've developed strategies and structures for “delays,” and such methods and structures provide order as well as understanding: we recognize why we wait. The sociology of waiting is a classic piece of everyday sociology, a timeless piece of routine behavior. Waiting is as natural as breathing, eating and drinking; indeed, mothers wait nine months before infants are brought to term, and summer will always follow spring. Waiting provides its own lessons. That is, watching cars weave through traffic and receive citations by police, we learn that waiting may have saved time and money. Shining the light on waiting permits a far superior understanding of order and how our society organizes itself around taking turns. Waiting is a matter that takes-up much of our valuable time and resources—consequently, reducing wait-time has become big business.

Paul Christopher Price is associate professor of sociology at the Pasadena City College and author of Social Control at Opportunity Boys Home: How Staff Control Juvenile Inmates.

Introduction

1Structure of Waiting

2Waiting Places

3Wait Utilization

4Waiting for Service

5Wait Explanations

6Business of Waiting

7Waiting with Strangers

8Alternatives to Waiting

9Emotion and Waiting

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 230 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-7936-4071-8 / 1793640718
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4071-0 / 9781793640710
Zustand	Neuware