The articles in this issue review the history of the sociological study of different societies' conceptions of time. Social time is the way people regard and employ time dependent on economic conditions, the organization of daily life, the cultural setting, and religion. (JDH)

Four steps to helping children discover the reasons for clocks. (Editor)

Part II of an examination of assumptions behind future planning for education. Related article is EA 500 732. (KJ)

A result-getting approach that entails clearly defining a committee's responsibility and establishing a deadline for fulfilling it. (Author/MF)

Research supported by a Public Health Service Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and a grant from the National Science Foundation.

To determine by classical time-estimation procedures if Type A persons estimate the passage of time differently than Type B persons, undergraduate male students, classified by the Jenkins Activity Survey, were asked to estimate several time periods. Responses to verbal, production, and reproduced time-estimation tasks were not significantly…

Tests relationships between indicators of domestic integration, focusing on divorce and suicide with data from the United States from 1933 to 1970. For the whole period, an increase in the divorce rate was associated with an increase in the suicide rate independent of trends in unemployment and birth. (Author/HLM)

Explores the factors causing variations in the perception and description of time in oral storytelling. Time factors are altered by the storyteller's memory patterns, the personal, collective and institutional contexts of the event, the significance of similar events, the perceived duration of the event, and the process of collecting and…

Describes habituation and addiction, both psychological and physiological, using simple equations of mathematical model of ideodynamics, optimized to smoking data from Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) program. With only four constant parameters, it was possible to calculate accurate time trends for recidivism to smoking among…

Discusses expressions of future time, and suggests that different expressions of future time in English express different degrees of probability. Two diagrams of present and past tense and 25 references are included. (Author/LMO)

Attempts to shed light on the selection of future time expressions in English tense usage. Descriptive accounts of time usage expressions are reinterpreted against the background of the theory of utterance interpretation known as Relevance Theory. (31 references) (Author/VWL)