Time and Society
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Time and Society

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Time and Society

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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. TenHouten'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.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780791483459
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Time and Society
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgment
  5. 1. Introduction
  6. 2. A Case Study of the Australian Aborigines
  7. 3. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness
  8. 4. Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness, Continued
  9. 5. Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness
  10. 6. Patterned-Cyclical and Ordinary-Linear Time and the Two Sides of the Brain
  11. 7. Immediate-Participatory and Episodic-Futural Time and the Brain
  12. 8. The Two and the Four, and Possibly More: Social Duality and the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality
  13. 9. Natural and Rational Experiences of Time
  14. 10. Communal Sharing and Patterned-Cyclical Time Consciousness
  15. 11. Equality Matching and Immediate- Participatory Time Consciousness
  16. 12. Authority Ranking and Episodic-Futural Time Consciousness
  17. 13. Market Pricing and Ordinary-Linear Time Consciousness
  18. 14. Text and Temporality
  19. 15. An Empirical Test of the Theory
  20. 16. Discussion
  21. Appendix
  22. Notes
  23. References
  24. Name Index
  25. Subject Index