The Textures of Time - Agency and Temporal Experience (Broché)

"The Textures of Time features our temporal agency, the everyday tactics we use to manage the most elusive dimension of our lives. Based on hundreds of interviews, it offers us a rare, nuanced look into the various ways we manipulate when, for how long, in what order, and how often we do what we do, highlighting the tension between socially-imposed temporal constraints and individuals' temporal creativity." Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and author of Hidden Rhythms : Schedules and Calendars in Social Life.
"Thanks to Michael Flaherty, we can no longer think about 'time' as something that just passes. His work shows us how people shape, organize, and structure time, making an important empirical and theoretical contribution that promises to inform sociology, social psychology, and philosophy. Reading this book will cause you to think more deeply about a subject that you thought you already knew." Steven Hitlin, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa.
"In The Textures of Time Michael Flaherty builds upon and moves beyond the issues he discussed in A Watched Pot. The book is an ambitious and ground-breaking examination of time as both a social construct and an object/resource that people actively and creatively manipulate (a process Flaherty calls 'time work'). Written by one of the most talented and insightful social scientists exploring the sociology of time, The Textures of Time is sure to reward those who choose to `spend time' with it." Clinton Sanders, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut.