Different cultures experience time in different ways. The sociologist
Emile Durkheim observed that we get our ideas of space and time from
our culture and the cultural ideas of space and time dictate our culture.
This seems circular but is not necessarily a vicious circle, because the
5 concept of time is open to revision. Cultures change and adapt their
concepts of time, just as they can revise and change their notion of
work. Every society has its own social time. Social time determines a
general path of life
ー when you do what. It tells you when to eat, when
go to school, and when you are old enough to drink, drive,
10 get married, or retire. The social meaning of Sunday, for example, is so
ingrained in our culture that mental patients who are given good care
during the week tend to take time off from their erratic behavior on
you
should
Sundays.
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