Time and society / Warren D. TenHouten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

TenHouten, Warren D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Physical Description:

xiii, 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005]

Summary:

Time-consciousness-"long a shared objective of philosophy and social thought-"is key to understanding different cultures and their cognitive adaptation to one another. Warren D. TenHoutten's remarkable book achieves this goal by providing a bold and original three-level theory of time-consciousness, its neurocognitive basis, and social organization. using classical and contemporary ethnographies of Australian Aborigines and Euro-Australians to support his theory. TenHouten shows how involvement in hedonic sociality-"emphasizing equality and community-"leads to time that is cyclical, present oriented, and more generally natural; whereas agonic sociality-"based on inequality and agency-"leads to time that is linear, future oriented, and more generally rational.

Contents:

Introduction

A case study of the Australian Aborigines

Patterned-cyclical time consciousness

Patterned-cyclical time consciousness, continued

Ordinary-linear time consciousness

Patterned-cyclical and ordinary-linear time and the two sides of the brain

Immediate-participatory and episodic-futural time and the brain

The two and the four, and possibly more : social duality and the elementary forms of sociality

Natural and rational experiences of time

Communal sharing and patterned-cyclical time consciousness

Equality matching and immediate-participatory time consciousness

Authority ranking and episodic-futural time consciousness

Market pricing and ordinary-linear time consciousness

Text and temporality

An empirical test of the theory

Discussion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and indexes.

ISBN:

0791464334

OCLC:

55679761