Time, Memory, and Society

by Franco Ferrarotti

Book Overview

Why should the sociologist concern himself with time? asks Franco Ferrarotti in his latest work. Temporality is, he argues, the essential fluid dimension in the study of the social. Including time as a factor in sociological analysis is the only way to reintroduce the dynamic moment of social reality as a mental construct into an analytical process otherwise reified by the limits of quantitative methods. Ultimately, Ferrarotti contends, the usual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313268282
• ISBN13: 9780313268281
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"