SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Meridian Conference, Pope Gregory Xiii, Coordinate Time

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Time- overview: standardized time, time and control, time and complexity, the bottom line: time is socially constructed. Mc: the authors of (cid:498)the social definition of time for university. Students(cid:499) argue that students assign many different meanings to. Time seems physical, a part of nature"s rhythm time: cycle of the sun, cycle of the moon, seasonal pattern. But people measure time: wrist watched, phones, the way time is kept in sporting events (innings) Understanding time"s passage was an early form of knowledge: it started with the concern of the seasons. Predicting time became associated with priests (looking up to the sky where god was) and governments (julius caesar, who came up with the 12 month calendar: learned to eventually fix the calendar by creating leap years. Pope gregory xiii (pope 1572-1585: tried to fix the calendar. Different cultures developed calendars: chinese, muslim, mayan (most important) Explained how the world was going to end in 2012.