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Watched Pot How We Experience Time

Flaherty Michael G.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780814726877
Publisert
1999-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
New York University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Flaherty Michael G.

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Flaherty is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Watched Pot How We Experience Time

Flaherty Michael G.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk
Flaherty Michael G.
Innbundet / 1999 / Engelsk
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A highly original and colorful book, filled with compelling, real life and fictional examples.

- Jack Katz,UCLA,

Flaherty invites us to the fascinating world of the phenomenology of time. Particularly sensitive to the inherent tension between the standard and the idiosyncratic, he offers a cross-situational, generic analysis of the circumstances when there is a considerable discrepancy between clock time and our subjective experience of duration such that we feel that time is either compressed (‘flies') or protracted (‘stands still'). . . . Clearly conceptualized and elegantly written, A Watched Pot is phenomenology at its best.

- Eviatar Zerubavel,author of Hidden Rhythms and The Seven Day Circle,

Masterful. This is arguably the most comprehensive inquiry to date by a sociologist on the perception of time, its passage and duration.

- Barry Glassner,University of Southern California,

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An engaging and profound analysis of a central aspect of the human condition, for, as Flaherty shows, our experiences of the world around us affect how we experience time.

Qualitative Sociology,Vol. 24, No. 3, 2001

Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock excruciatingly drawn out. What explains this seeming paradox? Based upon a full decade's empirical research, Michael G. Flaherty's new book offers remarkable insights on this most universal human experience. Flaherty surveys hundreds of individuals of all ages in an attempt to ascertain how such phenomena as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock, and novelty influence our perception of time. Their stories make for intriguing reading, by turns familiar and exotic, mundane and dramatic, horrific and funny. A qualitative and quantitative tour de force, A Watched Pot presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time and will be of interest to scientists, humanists, social scientists and the educated public alike. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.
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Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
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A highly original and colorful book, filled with compelling, real life and fictional examples.

- Jack Katz,UCLA,

Flaherty invites us to the fascinating world of the phenomenology of time. Particularly sensitive to the inherent tension between the standard and the idiosyncratic, he offers a cross-situational, generic analysis of the circumstances when there is a considerable discrepancy between clock time and our subjective experience of duration such that we feel that time is either compressed (‘flies') or protracted (‘stands still'). . . . Clearly conceptualized and elegantly written, A Watched Pot is phenomenology at its best.

- Eviatar Zerubavel,author of Hidden Rhythms and The Seven Day Circle,

Masterful. This is arguably the most comprehensive inquiry to date by a sociologist on the perception of time, its passage and duration.

- Barry Glassner,University of Southern California,

Se alle

An engaging and profound analysis of a central aspect of the human condition, for, as Flaherty shows, our experiences of the world around us affect how we experience time.

Qualitative Sociology,Vol. 24, No. 3, 2001

Time, it has been said, is the enemy. In an era of harried lives, time seems increasingly precious as hours and days telescope and our lives often seem to be flitting past. And yet, at other times, the minutes drag on, each tick of the clock excruciatingly drawn out. What explains this seeming paradox? Based upon a full decade's empirical research, Michael G. Flaherty's new book offers remarkable insights on this most universal human experience. Flaherty surveys hundreds of individuals of all ages in an attempt to ascertain how such phenomena as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock, and novelty influence our perception of time. Their stories make for intriguing reading, by turns familiar and exotic, mundane and dramatic, horrific and funny. A qualitative and quantitative tour de force, A Watched Pot presents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time and will be of interest to scientists, humanists, social scientists and the educated public alike. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.
Les mer
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780814726877
Publisert
1999-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
New York University Press
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Flaherty Michael G.

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Flaherty is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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