Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Br J Sociol. 2022 Jun;73(3):643-653. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12938. Epub 2022 Mar 24.
Time and temporality are common themes in the social sciences and sociology. The sociological literature on time remains solipsistically empirical, while theoretical elaborations are focused on modernity, capitalism, and technology, through notions of speed and acceleration. Although existing studies on time are imbued with political issues and processes, as the subfield that studies relations of power and politics, political sociology has yet to consolidate a temporal lexicon for studying structures of power and political phenomena. This review situates three recent books on time and politics within a broader sociological literature on time and calls for a political sociology of time. I argue that developing a conceptual apparatus that takes time as an element of power is fundamental to building dialogue across the empirical material and across disciplines. I conclude by offering three avenues for the development of a political sociology of time.
时间和时间性是社会科学和社会学中的常见主题。关于时间的社会学文献仍然是孤立的经验主义，而理论阐述则侧重于现代性、资本主义和技术，通过速度和加速度的概念。尽管关于时间的现有研究充满了政治问题和进程，但作为研究权力关系和政治现象的子领域，政治社会学尚未为研究权力结构和政治现象建立一个时间词汇。本评论将三本关于时间和政治的新书置于更广泛的社会学时间文献中，并呼吁进行时间的政治社会学研究。我认为，发展一种将时间作为权力要素的概念工具对于在经验材料和学科之间建立对话至关重要。最后，我提出了发展时间的政治社会学的三个途径。
