Changing Times - Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

Zusatztext The book is entirely accessible to the general reader and many of the key ideas are graphically illustrated. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gershuny is a professor of Economic Sociology at Essex University. He is the Director of the university's Institute for Social and Economic Research, and responsible, among other longitudinal data-sets, for the British Household Panel Study. He was previously a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the Head of the School of Social Sciences of Bath University. Klappentext If we can measure how the members of a society spend their time, we have the elements of a certain sort of account of how that society works. This is what Jonathan Gershuny provides in Changing Times, using 120,000 survey-diary accounts of daily life in twenty countries from the 1960s on to construct an account of how time-use patterns have changed in the developed world over the last third of a century and to relate these changes to economic development. His analysis of the data and of existing theoretical approaches highlights, and goes some way to addressing, problems in the standard National Accounting classifications of work and will become the foundation of a new approach to the economics and sociology of time. Zusammenfassung This text is about what we do for a living, and for other people's livings. Focusing on time-use, it aims to measure how members of a society spend their time, and uses surveys of daily life in 20 countries from 1960 onwards to construct an account of time-use patterns and how they have changed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: An Introduction, and a First Summary 2: Work and Leisure: Historical Change in the Conditions of Life 3: Are We Running out of Time? 4: The Individual's and the Society's Day: Micro and Macro Theories of Time Use 5: The History and Future of Time Use: Empirical Evidence 6: Explaining Time Use 7: A Concise Atlas of Time Use: 20 Countries, 33 Years' Change 8: Time-Use Models of Economic Development 9: Humane Modernization Appendix 1. Telling the Time: Some Reflections on Time-Diary Methodology Appendix 2. A Multinational Longitudinal Time-Use Data Archive ...

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• Authors: J. Gershuny, Jonathan Gershuny, Jonathan (Professor of Economic Sociolog Gershuny, Gershuny Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198287872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828787-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Economic theory & philosophy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social research & statistics, Sociology: work & labour, Social research and statistics, Sociology: work and labour, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Economic theory and philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General