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List of Tables – Preface – Acknowledgements – Introduction: The Sociological Study of Time; J.Hassard – PART 1: THE CONCEPT OF TIME – The Enigma of Time; E.Jaques – The Problem of Time; G.Gurvitch – PART 2: SOCIAL TIME – Time, Technics and Society; R.Mukerjee – Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis; P.Sorokin & R.Merton – Varieties of Social Time; G.Gurvitch – The Structures and Meanings of Social Time; J.Lewis & A.Weigart – PART 3: CAPITALISM – The Making of a Capitalist Time Consciousness; N.Thrift – Capitalism and the History of Work-Time Thought; C.Nyland – PART 4: WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS – Time and Job Satisfaction; D.Roy – Private-time and Public-time; E.Zerubavel – Time and the Long-term Prisoner; S.Cohen & L.Taylor – PART 5: CULTURE AND PERSPECTIVE – Time Perspective and Social Structure; L.Coser & R.Coser – Time-reckoning in the Trobriands; B.Malinowski – Time Perspectives of the Kabyle; P.Bourdieu – References – Index
