Time and Social Theory

Barbara Adam is editor of Time and Society.

• Introduction: Time is a Fact of Life1. Time in Social Theory: Destiny, Necessity, Enigma2. From the Measure of Motion of Entropy3. Rhythmicity: Source of Life and Form4. Human Time Studied5. Industrial Time and Power6. Time Transcended7. Time for Social Theory: Points of DepartureReferences

WINNER OF THE 1991 PHILIP ABRAMS MEMORIAL PRIZE. 'Barbara Adam will be read well into the next century not only for her remarkable understanding of human time but for the link she makes with the conception of time held by physicists and biologists.' Michael Young, Director, Institute of Community Studies'Very important ... an exceptionally clearly expressed account of issues usually dealt with in the most clotted writing. It is a genuine expression of sociological thought using the insights of other disciplines not as 'borrowing' but as illustrations of a direction to be followed.' Sociology'Barbara Adam has written a superb book.' Time and Society