Modernity’s own self-observation forces time structures to become sociology’s central object

Evidence

As I have tried to show, the requirement that we make temporal structures themselves the focus of social-scientific diagnoses of the times and definitions of modernity arises as it were naturally from the self-observation of modernity and in effect imposes itself on the sensitive social researcher. … Therefore in the next chapter I interrogate the systematic content of the available self-observations of modernity regarding time more rigorously in order to lay down the foundations of my own theory of acceleration. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Harold Innis’s bias of communication and the general methodological strategy in this reader’s library of making the medium/temporal structure itself the analytic object. — connects to: Modernity’s temporalization of time restructures every social form and concept. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 199; Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131; Time structures are the key link between macro-systemic and micro-actor perspectives in social theory. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 81 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s temporalization of time restructures every social form and concept. #expands (0.90) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 199
• Temporal structures reveal modernity’s underlying principles as if under a magnifying glass. #corroborates (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 103
• Time structures are the key link between macro-systemic and micro-actor perspectives in social theory. #corroborates (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 81
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131
• Cultural modernity as a whole is a reaction to accelerated time #expands (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 154
• Social order is fundamentally about how systems bind time and space #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 44
• The temporal structures of a society shape our sense of being in the world #expands (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 65
• Modern culture as a whole is a reaction to successive waves of time-space compression #qualifies (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 168
• Modernity’s globalising tendencies connect individuals to large-scale systems #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 409
• Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities #qualifies (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1064