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The Sociology of Time

A Critical Overview

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Authors:
  1. Jiří Šubrt

    1. Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic

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  • Offers a comprehensive overview of all important sociological ideas focused on time
  • Assesses these conceptions in a critical way, from the perspective of new theoretical ideas
  • Brings some fresh ideas to this area of theoretical thinking and research

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Labyrinth of Questions and Answers: Introduction

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 1-5

  3. Time and the Civilizing Process

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 7-39

  4. Time as a Social Category

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 41-93

  5. Time and Human Action

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 95-114

  6. Time: The Key to the Analysis of Social Reality

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 115-147

  7. The Role of Time in Theoretical Systems of Sociology at the End of the Twentieth Century

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 149-181

  8. The Time of Physics and Thermodynamics: (an Excursion into the Field of Natural Sciences)

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 183-195

  9. The Sociology of Time or Temporalized Sociology

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 197-223

  10. Balance and Prospects

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 225-243

  11. Epilogue

    • Jiří Šubrt
    Pages 245-251

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 253-282
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About this book

In a critical, comparative study of the sociological literature, this book explores the term “time,” and the various interconnections between time and a broad cluster of topics that create a conceptual labyrinth. Various understandings of time manifest themselves in the context of many individual social problems—there is no single vision in sociology of how to grasp time and address within social theory. This book, therefore, attempts to define an approach to the concept of time and its associated terms (duration, temporality, acceleration, compression, temporal structures, change, historical consciousness, and others). The volume is guided by a critical engagement with three main questions: a) the formation of human understanding of time; b) the functioning of temporal structures at different levels of social reality; c) the role and place of time in general sociological theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic

    Jiří Šubrt

About the author

Jiří Šubrt is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Charles University in Czechia. He is the author and editor of several books which mainly deal with the theme of contemporary sociological theory, particularly with regard to issues of action, structure, social systems and social change. His latest books in English are: The Perspective of Historical Sociology (2017), Individualism, Holism and Central Idea of Sociological Theory (2019), The Systemic Approach in Sociology and Niklas Luhmann (2020), Explaining Social Processes (2020).​

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Sociology of Time

  • Book Subtitle: A Critical Overview

  • Authors: Jiří Šubrt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83289-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83288-9Published: 27 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83291-9Published: 28 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83289-6Published: 26 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 282

  • Topics: Sociological Theory, Memory Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture

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