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SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages 20-38Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0038038517712914
Keywords
24/7 society; social acceleration; speed-up society; time pressure; time use diaries
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- Economic and Social Research Council (Collecting New Time Use Resources) [ES/L011662/1]
- European Research Council (Social Change and Everyday Life) [339703]
- ESRC [ES/L011662/1, ES/F037937/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0704, ES/L011662/1, ES/F037937/1, RES-000-23-0704-A] Funding Source: researchfish
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Using time diary evidence on change in the frequency and distribution of activities from UK time diary data over the 15 years from the turn of the 21st century, we assess whether the thesis of the speed-up society' is manifested in an increase in time intensity in people's daily lives. Comparing indictors like time fragmentation, multitasking and ICT use, to respondents' reports of how rushed they normally feel, we find no evidence that time pressure is increasing, or that ICT use is associated with greater feelings of time pressure. Rather, we find consistent cross-sectional differentials in our measures of time intensity by gender and occupational status, supporting the idea of relative stasis in the underlying social inequalities of time. These findings are consistent with previous research based on time use data, and we pose them as a challenge to theories of societal speed-up.
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