The Problem of Time

Gurvitch, Georges

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“…days, weeks, months and socially/culturally based notions of temporality -see Adam, 1995); 3. The passing of time is attributed to identifiable phases within temporal units (after Gurvitch, 1964); 4. Time frames consist of a distinctive orientation to the past/present/future, including images of the future; 5.…”

Section: Time and Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Event-based Business Networks

Hedaa

Törnroos

2008

Time & Society

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This article deals with the temporality in business networks. Marketing as networks approach stresses interaction processes and interdependence among actors noting that business markets are mainly socially constructed. The approach has increased our understanding of business marketing but further attention for theory development and empirical validation is needed. Theoretical foundations of the approach are conceptually analysed here, taking time and timing into particular consideration. A model of event networks is developed as an approach to understand temporality in business networks. The event network perspective is exemplified using practical cases. It is argued that extensions of network theory, methods and models can be approached using connected events as a base

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Section: Time and Eventsmentioning

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Understanding Event-based Business Networks

Hedaa

Törnroos

2008

Time & Society

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“…Considerable research focuses on western cultural ideas, including the construct of time. A wide range of distinct social constructions of time exists (Graham, 1981; Gurvitch, 1964), and some scholars claim that Eastern cultures are more past‐oriented than Western societies (Davies and Omer, 1996; Omer, 1995). Cote and Tansuhaj (1989) test time orientation, probabilistic thinking, and locus of control in Thailand, Jordan and the US and find that western cultures have more linear time orientations than do eastern cultures.…”

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Causal path modeling of grocery shopping in hypermarkets

Shannon

Mandhachitara

2008

Journal of Product &Amp; Brand Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine attitudinal and behavioral shopping patterns related to hypermarket shopping in an Asian market, which has undergone a revolutionary transition from traditional to modern trade food retailing in the past decade. The first class includes shopping enjoyment, risk aversion, price signaling, innovativeness, trust and future purchase intentions. The second group of behavioral shopping patterns includes advocacy, time, and money spent shopping.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 244 shoppers was interviewed across Bangkok using a structured questionnaire through face‐to‐face personal interviews.FindingsThe study finds that grocery shoppers tend to be more risk averse when time pressured, but less risk averse if they are innovative. Bangkok Thais score high on innovativeness and shopping enjoyment and are more frequent patrons of hypermarkets than other grocery store formats. While a particular aspect of hypermarket grocery shopping behavior is found to relate to advocacy and future loyalty intentions, it does not contribute to enhanced store trust.Research limitations/implicationsWhile Thailand is part of Southeast Asia, not all countries share the same cultures or consumer behavior. Similarly, as Bangkok is a mega city, it cannot be said to represent rural parts of the country.Practical implicationsAs the majority of modern retailers are owned and managed by western countries, the format is relatively new in most Asian markets. Their growth has not evolved naturally and may result in cross‐cultural consumer behavior conflicts, thus findings help extant or new retailers better understand consumer behavior. Because of high risk aversion, private label brands may require that stores develop greater trust among consumers, perhaps through sampling or building awareness of the concept behind private label. Thai hypermarket shoppers appear driven more by convenience than by time pressure. Because they tend to shop in groups and enjoy this experience, retailers may want to consider more of the experiential or social aspects involved in shopping, rather than purely functional offerings.Originality/valueBy applying predominantly western theories to a developing Asian market, their generalizability can be tested.

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“…In turn, the ritual effected a durable transformation in local historicity, as participants assimilated this novel “historical consciousness” of the locality into everyday practice through the contemplation of fragments at home, oral reminiscence of the hunt, and involuntary thoughts of the Gallo-Roman past during daily life. The pottery hunt employed a series of symbolic tropes that imaginatively articulated the individual into an emergent social timespace infused with Roman precedents via transformative ritual practice (Fernandez 1986; Gurvitch 1964). I will analyze this rite de passage further shortly.…”

Section: The Pottery Hunt: An Archaeologymentioning

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“… 11 For Gurvitch, enduring time is where “the past is projected in the present and in the future. This is the most continuous of the social times despite its retention of some proportion of the qualitative and the contingent penetrated with multiple meanings.… Among the social classes it is the peasant class, and among the global societies the patriarchal structures which appear to actualize this time” (1964: 31).…”

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“…This is a time of uncertainty par excellence where contingency is accentuated, while the qualitative element and discontinuity become prominent eventually. The present appears to prevail over the past and the future, with which it sometimes finds it difficult to enter into relations.… This is the time of global societies in transition, as our society of today so often is” (Gurvitch 1964: 32–33).…”

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Illuminating Vestige: Amateur Archaeology and the Emergence of Historical Consciousness in Rural France

Hodges

2013

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article provides a historical ethnography of an abrupt and transient awakening of interest in Roman vestige during the 1970s in rural France, and explores its implications for comparative understanding of historical consciousness in Western Europe. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Languedoc, and particularly the commune of Monadières, it details a vogue for collecting pottery shards scattered in a nearby lagoon that developed among local inhabitants. The article frames this as a ritualized “expressive historicity” emergent from political economic restructuring, cultural transformation, and time-space compression. It analyses the catalyzing role of a historian who introduced discursive forms into the commune for symbolizing the shards, drawn from regionalist and socialist historiography, which local people adapted to rearticulate the historicity of lived experience as a novel, hybrid genre of “historical consciousness.” These activities are conceptualized as a “reverse historiography.” Elements of historiographical and archaeological discourses—for example, chronological depth, collation and evaluation of material relics—are reinvented to alternate ends, partly as a subversive “response” to contact with such discourses. The practice emerges as a mediation of distinct ways of apprehending the world at a significant historical juncture. Analysis explores the utility of new anthropological theories of “historicity”—an alternative to the established “historical idiom” for analyzing our relations with the past—which place historiography within the analytical frame, and enable consideration of the temporality of historical experience. Findings suggest that the alterity of popular Western cultural practices for invoking the past would reward further study.

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The Problem of Time

Cited by 15 publications

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Understanding Event-based Business Networks

Understanding Event-based Business Networks

Causal path modeling of grocery shopping in hypermarkets

Illuminating Vestige: Amateur Archaeology and the Emergence of Historical Consciousness in Rural France

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