Timewatch
The Social Analysis of Time
Published on 29. May 2013
216 pages
978-0-7456-7670-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Barbara Adam is rapidly establishing herself as one of theauthorities on the field of time and reflexive social theory. Sheshows how our present perspective on time is fully out of key withthe problems we face in the risk society. This highly original booknot only points out the problems but also makes valuablesuggestions for a new contextual approach to social theory."Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This book will delight many, including many at late-school orearly-university level; since Adam has managed to write at a levelaccessible to such readers, while simultaneously introducingcomplexities and depths of theoretical concern often excluded fromtexts at that level, because seen as too complex. It is aconsiderable feat to overcome this barrier; and in my view Adamaccomplishes it most deftly and successfully." Fiona Mackie,LaTrobe University "This ... encourages the reader to think resoundingly,reverberatingly, long after the moment of reading it ... BarbaraAdam's Timewatch is a most excellent book. Like time itself,it is more than the sum of its parts. It should be used, not justread, to think through how we can all 'do things with time'."Time and SocietyMore details
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Book
01/1995
1st Edition
Polity Press
€21.50
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Person
Barbara Adam is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University.
Content
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 SocialScience.
Coda.
References.
Index.
