Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077336 |
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| Authors | Peter Clark (0000-0003-1001-9226, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeost025 |
| OpenAlex | W4235875840 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Time‐reckoning systems contain benchmarks that indicate the passing of time and durational expectancies with respect to sequences, rhythmic features, and periodicities. There is no social ordering without temporal ordering, yet time comprises more than the chronological use of calendar and clock time (CCT) with which most of the world associates it. There are also very significant frames of action calculated through the heterogeneous events located within natural and task‐based processes (Gurvitch 1964; Dubinskas 1988; Clark 1985; Bluedorne 2003). Time reckoning is a multilayered, hierarchical, contingent relationship between past, present, and future processes (Gurvitch 1964; Clark 1985; Harvey 1989; Adam 2004). The present is constituted through the differences between the remembered past and images of the future. One aim of an organization or society should be to establish an accessible, robust repertoire of temporal recipes and heuristics which enable the actionable interpretation of those future events that are located in emergent processes and flows
Action (physics · Art · Cognitive science · Heuristics · Interpretation (philosophy · Natural (archaeology · Repertoire · Rhythm · Task (project management · Communication · Computer Science · History · Interdisciplinary Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics · Personal Information Management and User Behavior · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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