In his Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Durkheim (1915) provided a classic
discussion of time and its social meaning. Describing time as “an endless chart before our�…

How we spend our time–our ''time budget''–is a crucial determinant of our position in the
social structure. This chapter discusses the way that individuals' time budgets are in turn�…

In the Preface to their volume, Child influences on marital and family interaction: A life-span
perspective (1978a), Richard M. Lerner and Graham B. Spanier wrote: There is an emerging�…

" A pathbreaking book on an important subject which, surprisingly, has been paid little
attention by social scientists. Zerubavel writes with both learning and lucidity. His book is a�…

What is family time and what value do we place on it? How many families today have time to
be families? How do families view, use, and seek to control time, and how successful are�…

Discusses the multiple and sometimes conflicting demands placed on family resources. A
major function of the family is the appropriate allocation of these resources. The interplay of�…

Age is important from the perspectives of societies, groups, and individuals. For societies,
the meanings and uses of age are often formal. For example, age underlies the organization�…

The social roots of time-reckoning-ie, the group-sustained ways of thinking of time-have
engaged the interest of some sociologists since the pioneering work of Durkheim and his�…

The category of astronomical time is only one of several concepts of time. Such concepts
differ in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and economics. An operational definition of�…

Students of the life cycle have given much attention to the biological timetable of human
development, but much less attention to the socio-historical context. A few of the major�…