The Seven Day Circle by Eviatar Zerubavel

The Seven Day Circle by Eviatar Zerubavel

Days, months, and years were given to us by nature, but we invented the week for ourselves. There is nothing inevitable about a seven-day cycle, or about any other kind of week; it represents an arbitrary rhythm imposed on our activities, unrelated to anything in the natural order. But where the week exists-and there have been many cultures where it doesn't-it is so deeply embedded in our experience that we hardly ever question its rightness, or think of it as an artificial convention; for most of us it is a matter of 'second nature.'

Zerubavel, Eviatar: - Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His many books include Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life, and Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

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ISBN 13	9780029346808
ISBN 10	0029346800
Titel	The Seven Day Circle
Autor	Eviatar Zerubavel
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Free Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1985-06-01
Seitenanzahl	206
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.