Meditações - tempo, um hábito social

The self-regulation in matters of time found in modern societies is not a biologically or psychologically determined phenomenon but a widespread social habitus which is accepted apparently spontaneously by nearly everyone. As [Norbert] Elias notes, a ‘self-regulation in terms of time which one encounters almost everywhere in later-stage societies is neither a biological datum, part of human nature, nor a metaphysical datum, part of an imaginary a priori, but a social datum, an aspect of the developing social habitus of humans which forms part of every individual person’.

Simonetta Tabboni