Social acceleration submits to a unified quantitative definition via unit-of-time logic

Evidence

The recourse to Newtonian physics is more helpful if one replaces the distances contained in the given equations with an abstract quantitative variable. Acceleration can then be defined as an increase in quantity per unit of time (or, logically equivalent, as a reduction of the amount of time per fixed quantity). Various things may serve as the quantity measured: distance traveled, total number of communicated messages, amount of goods produced (category 1) or the number of jobs per working lifetime or change in intimate partners per year (category 2) or action episodes per unit of time (category 3; see figure 2.1). — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 230

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how borrowing Newtonian acceleration, replacing distance with an abstract variable, unifies all three domains under one definition.
• XREF: connects to: Social acceleration takes three analytically distinct forms — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 65; Social acceleration concerns frequency of change, not speed over distance — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 226

Broader Connections

• Social acceleration concerns frequency of change, not speed over distance #expands (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 226
• Social acceleration takes three analytically distinct forms #qualifies (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 65