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@article{ Brose2004, title = {Towards a culture of non-simultaneity?}, author = {Brose, Hanns-Georg}, journal = {Time & Society}, number = {1}, pages = {5-26}, volume = {13}, year = {2004}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X04040740}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-131720}, abstract = {"There are three different concepts and analytical aspects of social time in contemporary western societies that are referred to in this article: (1) the different tempos of social processes and (2) the varying time horizons of 'socially expected durations' (Merton, 1986). It is argued that due to spatial, technological and socio-economic changes a third, more fundamental evolution of temporality is emerging: (3) an increasing simultaneity of events in our 'world at reach' (Schutz and Luckmann, 1983). The different tempos and time-scopes being causes and effects of this phenomenal simultaneity. An increase in simultaneity necessarily provokes an increase in non-simultaneity. 'Classical' mechanisms of temporal ordering of non-simultaneous events are sequencing and linear processing. It is claimed, that these mechanisms, typical of industrial modernity, are complemented by efforts and exigencies of coping with complexity in a simultaneous mode. It is assumed that the abilities of actors and social systems of parallel and simultaneous processing are enhanced but after all remain limited. Therefore, a growing realm of non-simultaneity remains open to meaningful interpretation. This is what significance an emerging culture of nonsimultaneity has." (author's abstract)}, keywords = {social process; Zeit; social system; sozialer Prozess; soziales System; time}}