The Origins of the Sociology of Social Time

Sociological time is a specific time bounded by a succession & alternation of "strong" times having their origin in major events & expressing the system of a society's beliefs, its sacred character, or more simply, its system of values. Social time is thus of a qualitative nat...

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Published in:Année sociologique 1992-01, Vol.42, p.283-297
Main Author: Sue, Roger
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Qualitative Methods
Sociology
Theoretical Problems
Time
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Summary:Sociological time is a specific time bounded by a succession & alternation of "strong" times having their origin in major events & expressing the system of a society's beliefs, its sacred character, or more simply, its system of values. Social time is thus of a qualitative nature, imposing its own periodicity & providing rhythm for various social activities. The origin of present time can be retrieved from human history by constituting memory through symbolic events. If an evolutionary perspective is adapted, a vision of history emerges quite similar to Emile Durkheim's Les Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse ([Elementary Forms of Religious Life] 1912 [see SA 14:4/66C0596]). For Durkheim, time was not an ordinary concept, but rather, a fundamental category of thought. An overview is given of Marcel Mauss, H. Hubert, Maurice Halbwachs, & other members of the French school of sociology interested in questions of temporality. 9 References. M. Meeks
ISSN:0066-2399