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Railway Time and Rubber Time
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Abstract This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. ... mehr
This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. It demonstrates that multiple discourses of time and the complicated interactions among them create temporal complexity in which the seeming contradiction between rigidity and flexibility is compromised. The data derive from long-term participant-observation research among Japanese in Japan and abroad.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Japan
Freie Schlagwörter
appointments; railways; social relationships; time;
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Seitenangabe
S. 177-195
Zeitschriftentitel
Time & Society, 15 (2006) 2-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X06066950
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)