The Standardization of Time: A Sociohistorical Perspective

Zerubavel, Eviatar

doi:10.1086/227631

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“…Standardised time presumes standardized subjects, so that not being able to locate oneself in time by knowing the day, month and year is understood as a symptom of mental illness and/or brain dysfunction. According to Zerubavel (1982), the origins of standardized time can be found in the establishment of new mail delivery systems and rail networks during the industrial revolution in the UK. He argues that the move to standardized time also facilitated the strengthening of global networks.…”

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Temporalities of mental health recovery

McWade

2015

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Since the 1990s, the concept of "recovery in/from serious mental health problems" has been iterated internationally as the new paradigm in mental health policy and practice.A constitutive element of recovery discourse is a struggle over what defines a "good" life-in-time, yet temporalities of recovery remain under-investigated. This paper offers an empirical exploration of recovery enacted in an NHS "arts for mental health" service called Create. I present an analysis of several intersecting temporalities at play withinCreate through the lens of one service-user's story. The temporal orderings of the situated aesthetic care practices at Create encapsulate competing articulations of recovery, hope, and aspiration. These different temporalities enact different subjectivities, revealing recovery to be a set of socio-political struggles over what lives are deemed liveable in the context of global neoliberal capitalism.

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Temporalities of mental health recovery

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2015

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“…Não surpreende então ler que a metrologia custa quase três vezes o orçamento de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, e que esta cifra corresponde apenas aos primeiros elementos da cadeia metrológica (Hunter, 1980). Graças à organização metrológica, a constantes físicas básicas (tempo, espaço, peso, longitude de onda), assim como muitos estândares químicos e biológicos podem estender-se a «toda parte» (Zerubavel, 1982;Landes, 1983). A universalidade da ciência e da tecnologia é um clichê da epistemologia, mas a metrologia é a realização prática desta mística universalidade.…”

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“…Sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel (1982) describes the emergence of the international standardization of time, and thus the concept of time zones so that people could have fixed points in time to refer to when the world was connected by railway transportation and telegraphic communication. In his book "Hidden rhythms", Zerubavel (1985) explores and dissects the concept of time.…”

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Supporting young children's communication with adult relatives across time zones

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Kjeldskov

Paay

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Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

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Regular contact between children and their adult relatives can be a problem if they live in different time zones. In this situation, finding an agreed time to contact each other can be both confusing and complicated. This paper presents a study of the effect of time zone differences on communication between grandparents and grandchildren living in different time zones. We deployed a system between time zone distributed families to study this effect and analysed its use based on four parameters of time and events based theory: rigid sequential structures (that some events cannot occur before others), fixed durations (that most events always last the same time), standard temporal locations (that events have a standard time when they occur during the day) and uniform rates of recurrence (that some events always reoccur at a uniform rate). Our findings highlight the importance of: the need to consider the parents' role in facilitating contact and making the technology easy to use by children independently; the advantage of concurrent synchronous and asynchronous interaction forms; and the need to respect people's private time. These findings can inform the design of technology for supporting young children's communications with adult relatives across time zones.

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The Standardization of Time: A Sociohistorical Perspective

Cited by 285 publications

References 16 publications

Temporalities of mental health recovery

Temporalities of mental health recovery

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Supporting young children's communication with adult relatives across time zones

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