Changing Times - Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

Zusatztext A very interesting and enlightening look at our time and times. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Gershuny is 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 at 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 There is little substantive evidence of how individuals and societies spend their time, and of how this has changed in the developed world. This text brings together data gathered in 40 national scale "time-diary" studies, from 20 countries, and covering the last third of the 20th century. 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 Longitudinal, Multinational Collection of Time-Use Data: The MTUS ...

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• Authors: Jonathan Gershuny, Jonathan (Professor of Economic Sociolog Gershuny, Gershuny Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2003
• EAN: 9780199261895
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926189-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Work and Leisure in Postindust
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 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