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With time and space no longer constraining communications and with more and more cultures opening up to be sampled and appropriated, everyday life comes to be experienced as one of acceleration – everything is faster because time and space no longer represent constraints on the tempo of activities.\n\nThe main, and crucial, difficulty with all these accounts is their assumption of ‘past temporal conditions. Theories are built around a vision of a society where everyone has time to spend with those whom they care most about, a time when everyday life was straightforward with fewer work, domestic and consumer-related time pressures. While this criticism may be read as a highly stylized characterization of a range of different theoretical accounts, the point that these accounts pay little attention to the empirical analysis of past daily lives is difficult to counter. In attempting to provide an empirically driven theoretical account of the changing temporal organization of daily life, this chapter takes ‘day in the life of’ diaries from 1937 and analyses them in relation to data collected in a research project that began in 2000. A practice-based analytical approach, which focuses on the temporal conditioning of what people ‘do’, is applied to both sets of data. A discussion of the data is followed by a brief overview of the key findings from the contemporary research project. The 1937 ‘day in the life of’ diaries are then discussed in relation to four categories: temporal rhythms; negotiating time; relationships; and temporal experiences. In conclusion, it is argued that the mechanisms that organize temporalities in 2000 bear a strong resemblance to the mechanisms of temporal organization in 1937. What has changed is that institutionally timed events are no longer as fixed within the temporal rhythms of daily life such that the collective coordination of practices, particularly those connected with inter-personal relationships, has been undermined. In 2000, the personal coordination of practices was a central challenge to daily life; a challenge that was absent from the diaries of 1937.\n\nMass Observation ‘Day in the Life of’ Diaries and Household Interviews: A Practice-based Approach\n\nThe chapter employs two sources of data: household interviews from 2000 and ‘day in the life of’ diaries from 1937. Interviews were conducted with twenty households (a total of twenty-seven respondents) located in a suburb of Bristol, England. The sample comprised single households, couples with and without children, and the ages of respondents varied between 25 and 65 years. Some were dual-income households, some professionals and some retired, thus providing a range of demographic and socio-economic status groups. Respondents were contacted via letter sent to every other house in the most and least expensive streets of the town. The interviews were semi-structured, lasted, on average, two hours and the interviewer adopted a conversational approach (Douglas 1985). Respondents were asked whether they felt society, in general, was more time pressured than in the past, whether they felt pressed for time, to recount and reflect on the previous week and week-end day, and to describe how they organized the passage of time in their daily lives.\n\nRe-ordering Temporal Rhythms\n\n51","previous_page":50,"next_page":52}