Michael (Dunlop) Young (1915–2002) was a sociologist, social activist and politician, who was known for his Bethnal Green Studies. He was founder of the Institute of Community Studies, now a division of the Young Foundation. He was given a life peerage in 1978 and sat in the House of Lords as Baron Young of Dartington.Tom Schuller was Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick at the time of publication. He had worked at OECD in Paris, the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Community Studies in London.

• Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Towards Chronosociology Michael Young and Tom Schuller 2. Social Structural Time: An Attempt at Classifying Types of Social Change by their Characteristic Paces Peter Laslett 3. The Intellectual History of Long Waves Peter Hall 4. Vivos Voco. Ringing the Changes in the Historical Geography of Time Consciousness Nigel Thrift 5. Time and Work Organisation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Ken Starkey 6. ‘Your Time, Or Mine?’ An Anthropological View of the Tragic Temporal Contradictions of Biomedical Practice Ronald Frankenberg 7. Time: A Social Psychological Perspective Marie Jahoda 8. Time, Habit and the Fraternal Impulse Johnston Birchall 9. Social Versus Natural Time, A Traditional Distinction Re-examined Barbara Adam. Index.

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Michael (Dunlop) Young (1915–2002) was a sociologist, social activist and politician, who was known for his Bethnal Green Studies. He was founder of the Institute of Community Studies, now a division of the Young Foundation. He was given a life peerage in 1978 and sat in the House of Lords as Baron Young of Dartington.Tom Schuller was Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick at the time of publication. He had worked at OECD in Paris, the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Community Studies in London.

• Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Towards Chronosociology Michael Young and Tom Schuller 2. Social Structural Time: An Attempt at Classifying Types of Social Change by their Characteristic Paces Peter Laslett 3. The Intellectual History of Long Waves Peter Hall 4. Vivos Voco. Ringing the Changes in the Historical Geography of Time Consciousness Nigel Thrift 5. Time and Work Organisation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Ken Starkey 6. ‘Your Time, Or Mine?’ An Anthropological View of the Tragic Temporal Contradictions of Biomedical Practice Ronald Frankenberg 7. Time: A Social Psychological Perspective Marie Jahoda 8. Time, Habit and the Fraternal Impulse Johnston Birchall 9. Social Versus Natural Time, A Traditional Distinction Re-examined Barbara Adam. Index.

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Michael (Dunlop) Young (1915–2002) was a sociologist, social activist and politician, who was known for his Bethnal Green Studies. He was founder of the Institute of Community Studies, now a division of the Young Foundation. He was given a life peerage in 1978 and sat in the House of Lords as Baron Young of Dartington.Tom Schuller was Senior Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Warwick at the time of publication. He had worked at OECD in Paris, the University of Glasgow and the Institute of Community Studies in London.

• Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Towards Chronosociology Michael Young and Tom Schuller 2. Social Structural Time: An Attempt at Classifying Types of Social Change by their Characteristic Paces Peter Laslett 3. The Intellectual History of Long Waves Peter Hall 4. Vivos Voco. Ringing the Changes in the Historical Geography of Time Consciousness Nigel Thrift 5. Time and Work Organisation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis Ken Starkey 6. ‘Your Time, Or Mine?’ An Anthropological View of the Tragic Temporal Contradictions of Biomedical Practice Ronald Frankenberg 7. Time: A Social Psychological Perspective Marie Jahoda 8. Time, Habit and the Fraternal Impulse Johnston Birchall 9. Social Versus Natural Time, A Traditional Distinction Re-examined Barbara Adam. Index.

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