The Sociology of Time

List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Sociological Study of Time; J.Hassard - PART 1: THE CONCEPT OF TIME - The Enigma of Time; E.Jaques - The Problem of Time; G.Gurvitch - PART 2: SOCIAL TIME - Time, Technics and Society; R.Mukerjee - Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis; P.Sorokin & R.Merton - Varieties of Social Time; G.Gurvitch - The Structures and Meanings of Social Time; J.Lewis & A.Weigart - PART 3: CAPITALISM - The Making of a Capitalist Time Consciousness; N.Thrift - Capitalism and the History of Work-Time Thought; C.Nyland - PART 4: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS - Time and Job Satisfaction; D.Roy - Private-time and Public-time; E.Zerubavel - Time and the Long-term Prisoner; S.Cohen & L.Taylor - PART 5: CULTURE AND PERSPECTIVE - Time Perspective and Social Structure; L.Coser & R.Coser - Time-reckoning in the Trobriands; B.Malinowski - Time Perspectives of the Kabyle; P.Bourdieu - References - Index