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“It’s not even the leaders out here who have any say at all in how long they’re gonna have to wait”: A study of waiting time, power, and acceptance “甚至连这里的领导人都没有发言权决定他们要等多久”：对等待时间、权力和接受度的研究

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-25 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20950983

L. S. Hansen

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引用次数: 2

Time, class and privilege in career imagination: Exploring study-to-work transition of Chinese international students in UK universities through a Bourdieusian lens 职业想象中的时间、阶级和特权:布尔迪厄视角下的中国留学生在英学习到工作的转变

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20951333

C. Xu

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引用次数: 11

Inevitability, contingency, and the epistemic significance of time 必然性，偶然性，以及时间的认知意义

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20951679

L. Benda

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引用次数: 1

How the type of working day affects work–life balance and mealtime balance: A study based on the time use survey 工作日的类型如何影响工作-生活平衡和用餐时间平衡:一项基于时间使用调查的研究

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20947531

Ángel Alonso-Domínguez, J. Callejo, C. Díaz-Méndez

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引用次数: 5

Undoing age, redefining gender, and negotiating time: Embodied experiences of midlife women in endurance sports 放弃年龄、重新定义性别和协商时间：中年女性在耐力运动中的具体经历

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-12 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20948987

Suzy Ben Dori, A. Kemp

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引用次数: 2

Waving the historian’s magic wand: Temporal comparisons and analogies in the writing of history 挥舞历史学家的魔杖：历史写作中的时间比较和类比

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20944038

Javier Fernández-Sebastián

引用次数: 0

A theory of temporal telepresence: Reconsidering the digital time collapse 时间遥现理论：对数字时间崩溃的再思考

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-07-21 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20940471

Carl Öhman

引用次数: 4

Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions 发展时期的社会变化?关于“可变性”和儿童福利干预的不均匀时间

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20938590

Z. Knezevic

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引用次数: 1

The temporalities of free knowledge work: Making time for media engagement 免费知识工作的时间性：为媒体参与腾出时间

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-07-17 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20938593

Nancy Worth, E. A. Karaagac

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引用次数: 1

Smearing time: Critical temporality and corporate ontology 涂抹时间:关键时间性和企业本体

IF 2 2区社会学

Time & Society Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20933479

G. Genosko, P. Hegarty

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