Czas a badania socjologiczne

Author presents reflections on the time dimension in the contemporary world, therefore the ways of estimating the time angle in sociology. Although sociology reconstructs the everyday definitions of situations and development of daily life temporalities, still in sociological understanding the dimension of lime is seen as self-evident, which in general not requires definition. The paper suggests the necessity of analyzing the temporality as a subject in the sociological studies, though it aims reconstruction of the matrix of ‘time dimensions’ to adapt by sociologists while analyzing ‘the temporal order’. Already existing philosophical ideas of temporalities, also the results of several studies on the time component, might contribute to that analysis. ‘The matrix’ consists of the temporal measurements, overlaying each other and mutually related. Hence the matrix of reconstructed conditions, ordered by their scope: - Civilization (viz. industrial and postindustrial); - Newtonian and Einstein idea of time; - community; - physical constrains (nature); - culture; - formal organizations; - technology (electronic communication); - planning the stages of actions (building the plan of trajectory); - reconstruction and co-ordination of planned actions; - subjective apprehension of these conditions (often restraints the individual’s activities). That matrix is to use in succeeding sociological analysis of ‘the measure of time’, its quality and context of emergence.