Age and agency: Time work across the life course

被引:25
作者
Flaherty, Michael G. [1 ]
机构
[1] Eckerd Coll, St Petersburg, FL 33711 USA
关键词
Age; agency; life course; temporal experience; time;
D O I
10.1177/0961463X12455598
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Scholars have observed growing variability in life course transitions, such as entry into a full-time job. Life course theorists use the concept of agency to account for increasing diversity and unpredictability in developmental trajectories. In so doing, they presume that agency can only be a source of heterogeneity. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 406 people from all walks of life, I examine a form of temporal agency or time work' - that is, efforts to modify one's own experience of time or that of others. The findings suggest that agency does not operate in the way life course theorists envision.
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