How Do My Social Interactions and Relations Shape My Sense of “Here and Now”?

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of The Power of Place: Outside In, Inside Out, and Synchrony. The book opens doors previously unnoticed about psychological ecology. From reading the book one learns that settings influence behavior more than the personalities of most people.

"Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture", is an article for Robert Levine and Ellen Wolff, it extend readers with the authors’ viewpoints and research about ‘time-sense’ in different cultures. Robbert and Wolff emphasize that there is difference of ‘time-sense’ in two levels, which are inter cultural and cross cultural. When we move into a new culture, understanding the differences of ‘time sense’ might help us to set ourselves to new people and also new places. The author also describe how ‘time sense’ vary in different cultures is more explained by the author’s experience and research. Having lived in Brazil meaning "tomorrow" referring to that Brazilians usually defer whatever they need to do. To find out if "the ‘manha’ pattern

Thompson starts out describing how people measured time before clocks and the Industrial Revolution. People measured time in units of domestic activities or natural phenomena, which can be described as task-orientation. Thompson considers this type of time-measuring to be “natural” and believes that a task-oriented society results in little distinction between work and life. However, to people used to timed labor, such an attitude to labor appeared to be wasteful.

Personal space. Space between people indicates interest or intimacy between people. Personal space can be split in to four areas:

Sequence: Reflecting on my day to day activities, I have come to see how much of it is governed by sequence. From waking in the morning, completing my activities through the day, and preparing for bed. Everything I do though out a day is organized the same as any other day, with a

According to Doreen Massey, Space is “a complex web of relations of domination and subordination, of solidarity and cooperation” (Massey 1993, p.81, cited in Neely and Sumura 2011). This definition allows one to see the incorporation of the ‘power over’, how a person will have the ‘power over’ someone (domination) and therefor that someone will be subordinate. As well as the contrast between

reason or a need to keep track of time because no one follows a schedule. They eat, sleep and

There is a need to have the technical organization of work, in that there is the need for construction of tasks and productivity. When there is a professional organization of work, there is a likelihood of better results, and thus there will be a possibility of social change at work. Contrarily, Roethlisberger believes that social organization of work is imperative to create change at work. As a result, he saw that it is necessary to have social structure at work to avoid conflicts thus leading in better

Space refers to the distance between individuals when they interact. (Giger Newman & Davidhizar, 2002) According to Hall (1966), there are four zones of interpersonal space: intimate, personal, social and consultative, and public. (Giger Newman & Davidhizar, 2002) Each culture could have different rules when it comes to space. Alongside that each person has their own comfort level when it comes to space. A patient’s personal and intimate space can cause discomfort and may result in a client’s refusing treatment or not returning for further care. (Giger Newman & Davidhizar, 2002)

We plan our day around different times of the day. Time tells us when to eat, when to sleep, and how long to do things for. If time were based on these simple terms, then this mysterious enigma would not be in debate. There are the issues of space and time; what is the relationship

When you go to school at the first day it feels like a long time for you to get their but the more you take that route to school there is nothing “new” happening, and your mind does not memorize the instances you are in. Other scientists such as Wallach and Green studied the way time is interpreted they asked young adults (ages 18-20) how they feel time are like, most answered with stationary motions like “motionless” and “quiet”. The other group (most around the age 78) described time as rapid, fast, and swift “time is a speeding train”. Other research furthermore added to the building

Organization means using your space wisely. Using things like computers to hold lots of information and keep

Modernity revolves around the rational application of scientific method to certain aspects of life. This could be done through the development of governmental regulations, bureaucratic observation, and the erosion of traditional values (Beck, Lash & Giddens, 1997). New thought processes and the increase in the application medicine and technology have played important roles in the concept of rationalism (Bilton et al, 2002). The character of modern society could be defined by rationalism (Macionis & Plummer, 2012: 123); this can be clearly seen in the South African rational social organization context from hunter gatherer days to modern day society. An example of this would be how the essence of time has changed within society. In traditional hunter gatherer societies, like “The San and Zulu clans”, before technological inventions such as the clock was introduced, people used to base their time on the sun and moon’s position as well as seasons to allocate their time in regions and activities in order to conduct their livelihood (South Africa African Religions, 1996). However, in modern day society, owing to the clock invention, scheduled activities/events are precisely on the hour and minute (Macionis & Plummer, 2012: 123). Thus, modern society has allowed individuals to be more efficient, by limiting time constraints through technology and infrastructure and has greatly improved the livelihoods of people, owing to better healthcare and institutions which affectively address

Technology has created shortcuts in working and made tasks easier to accomplish. Technology may have caused our life to be faster but it made it easier also. Phones, vehicles and computers are all physical examples that contributed abundantly towards the life of our people. With technology, transportation has increased significantly. We don’t have to walk to go