Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective

by Eviatar Zerubavel

This volume presents an original study in the sociology of time: a case-description and conceptual analysis of the ways in which the temporal frameworks we customarily take for granted structure social reality. The study is based on the author's observation of the activities of medical professionals in a large teaching hospital: there, he collected data to show that the rhythms of organizational life have particular moral and cognitive dimensions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226981606
• ISBN13: 9780226981604
• Release Date: July 1979
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"