Table of Contents

Introduction: Time is a Fact of Life.

1. Time in Social Theory: Destiny, Necessity, Enigma.

2. From the Measure of Motion of Entropy.

3. Rhythmicity: Source of Life and Form.

4. Human Time Studied.

5. Industrial Time and Power.

6. Time Transcended.

7. Time for Social Theory: Points of Departure.

References.

About the Author

Barbara Adam is editor of Time and Society.

Reviews

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