Crossing the Great Divide
Time, Nature and the Social
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Newton (0000-0002-7116-7786, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-457 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380385030373003 |
| OpenAlex | W2015698057 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 56 |
This article addresses perceived difference in temporal pace within nature and considers how epistemological debate is conditioned by such difference, drawing on the work of Norbert Elias. The first part of the article debates the equivalence of 'natural time' and 'social time'. The acceleration of human social pace is also explored, along with the human capacity for plasticity and change, and the contrast which such plasticity presents in relation to the seeming longevity of many natural processes. The epistemological implications of these arguments are considered in the second part of the article, focusing on the difficulties which human plasticity creates for current social theory (with particular attention to critical realism). In the final part of the article, the foregoing discussion is used to re-evaluate sociologies of nature through reference to the sociology of the body
Epistemology · Equivalence (formal languages · Natural (archaeology · Pace · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · History · Philosophy · Sociology and Norbert Elias
Society and Biology
Crunch Time
Creating Adventures in Wonderland
Conflicting Temporalities of Social and Environmental Change
Bringing time back in’. Towards a socio-ecological stratification of time
Beyond “Decorative Sociology”
Basic‐Level Categories, Mirror Neurons, and Joint‐Attention Schemes
The turn to biology
Agency and Change
Civilised Bodies Redux
Marrying the Social and the Biological? a Rejoinder to Newton
Medical sociology and the biological body
The Turn to Biology
How Biology Became Social, and What it Means for Social Theory
Truly Embodied Sociology
Life Times
New' Social Theory? Abbott and Social Studies of Finance
Biology without Biologism
World as lover, world as self
Realism and Hermeneutics
Science as Practice and Culture
Bodies of Thought
Economics and Reality
Modernity at large
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II
Modernity and Self-Identity
Scientific Establishments and Hierarchies
Encyclopedia of Time
Realist Social Theory
Sociology Beyond Societies
The Body and Social Theory
Timescapes of Modernity
Regions, Networks and Fluids
Objectivity, Causality and Ideology in Modern Physics
The Social Construction of What
Contested Natures
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
New Philosophies of Social Science
Timewatch
Time
A thousand plateaus
Beyond the Present
Techno-economic Networks and Irreversibility
The Body in Sociology
On Recalling Ant
Death. So What? Sociology, Sequestration and Emancipation
Truly Embodied Sociology
Unnatural Emotions
Social Processes of Scientific Development
The Place of Complexity
Max Weber's Ancient Judaism
Professionalism as Enterprise
Modernity, Self-Identity and the Sequestration of Death
Biology and Social Science
Sociology of Knowledge
Theory of science and history of science
Credit and civilization
The material and the symbolic in theorizing social stratification
Power, Subjectivity and British Industrial and Organisational Sociology
Anti-Reductionist Sociology
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |