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Sociology of Waiting - How Americans Wait (Paperback)
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Sociology of Waiting - How Americans Wait (Paperback)
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In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how
people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. It is a
key feature within U.S. and other societies; waiting is universal.
Sociologically, waiting gets at order and our ability or inability
to pause. Crowds cannot rush into concert venues and supermarket
clerks cannot check-out customers simultaneously. So, we must wait!
In all our waiting, we've developed strategies and structures for
"delays," and such methods and structures provide order as well as
understanding: we recognize why we wait. The sociology of waiting
is a classic piece of everyday sociology, a timeless piece of
routine behavior. Waiting is as natural as breathing, eating and
drinking; indeed, mothers wait nine months before infants are
brought to term, and summer will always follow spring. Waiting
provides its own lessons. That is, watching cars weave through
traffic and receive citations by police, we learn that waiting may
have saved time and money. Shining the light on waiting permits a
far superior understanding of order and how our society organizes
itself around taking turns. Waiting is a matter that takes-up much
of our valuable time and resources-consequently, reducing wait-time
has become big business.
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