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doi: 10.1177/000169937702000102pmid: N/A
The article strives to demonstrate the centrality of the category of social time (a) in people's daily lives, (b) as a methodological tool in the study of social process, and (c) as a means towards the planned development and management of advanced societies. Social time has two aspects: rhythm of life and available total time. The article shows that in advanced societies total time and its rational allocation are central in the development of society and individual personality. The nature of social time in less developed societies is also reviewed as well as the historical development of time awareness and the problems of the research on time budget. The article is based on the conceptions about the nature of the economy of time that emerged from reading Marx's Grundrisse.
doi: 10.1177/000169937702000103pmid: N/A
This paper is part of an extensive one-man project (Social Trends and Movements in Post-war Sweden) exploring structural changes, and relating them to trends and social movements and seeing the development both as a result of naturalistic forces and as a human drama of conscious movements. It is also a personal document from an industrial sociologist with socialist visions, who started research far back in the 40's. It is a shortened and revised version of the original paper presented in a preliminary version at the Polish-Swedish Seminar on Sociology of Work and Social Policy in Warsaw (October 1976), and later introduced at a seminar on Participation, Workers Control, Self Management, Self Govern ment in Dubrovnik, February 1977. The original analyses the structural and political changes in Sweden as a background for understanding changes in industrial relations and is available as a mimeographed research report from the sociological department of Gothenburg. Some of the references in the original paper have been omitted in this shortened version.
doi: 10.1177/000169937702000104pmid: N/A
The article takes up the problem of the centre/periphery concept as it is encountered in social science; specifically in the theories of Johan Galtung, Stein Rokkan, Andre Gunder Frank and Jon Naust dalslid. The author in analysing the theories of Galtung and Gun der Frank finds that the problem of uniting geographic and socio- economic space is not solved, because centre and periphery are seen as points on a 'flow diagram'. Rokkan's more modest theory suffers from the separation of form and content. From this cri tique the author develops, through a reformulation of Naustdalslid's thesis a concept of centre and periphery based on modes of produc tion, linked by an economic integration mode derived from Polanyi.
doi: 10.1177/000169937702000105pmid: N/A
A structural and propositional elaboration is presented of work in the area of distributive justice. An experiment is designed to test selected hypotheses derived from that elaboration. The main objec tives of the present study are: (1) to examine the amounts of compensation sought by subjects in two situations of injustice (Under/Over and Under/Just); (2) to examine whether the amount of compensation sought will differ in accord with the magnitude of injustice, when the latter is varied through a manipulation of relative inputs; (3) to examine whether subjects prefer to exact compensation directly from the source of injustice or from an 'experimental fund'; and (4) to examine whether the amount of compensation will differ in two situations, one in which compen sations can only be obtained from the source of injustice (Forced condition), and the other in which a choice can be made between taking from either the source or from an 'experimental fund' (Choice condition).A 2 x 2 factorial design was employed with the two situations of injustice and the two conditions of compensation alternative comprising the independent variables. The results suggest a different set of predictions than those of J. Stacy Adams with regard to the rank order of injustice situations in terms of the magnitude of motivation to reduce injustice they generate. In addition, some theoretical and methodological implications are substantiated with regard to the suggestion that a given situation of injustice may vary in its magnitude, as determined by the structure of the parti cular 'minor' type involved. The results further show that subjects in the most unjust situation (Under/Over) are likely to retaliate directly against the source of injustice, while subjects in the least unjust situation (Under/Just) prefer compensation from an avail able experimental fund. Finally, subjects in the Under/Over-Choice condition exacted more money from the source of injustice than did subjects in the Under/Over-Forced condition, while subjects in the Under/Just-Choice condition took less from the source than subjects in the Under/Just-Forced condition.
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