Sleep as in/dispensable deceleration for acceleration: the ambivalent relation between social acceleration and sleep patterns of the white-collar employees in İstanbul

Date

2022-01-01

Author

Topal, Çağatay
KURMUŞ, Emir

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

165
views

0
downloads

Capitalism today tries to take advantage of sleep while reducing its duration. The expansion of flexible work regimes into other fields of life spreads the effects of social acceleration. Acceleration is in line with deceleration. Sleep can be a limit to acceleration or can be a necessary deceleration of the body for further acceleration. On the one hand, due to the requirements and desires inside and outside work, sleep is more vulnerable to time pressure. On the other hand, lack of or unhealthy sleep is seen as an obstacle before enriched participation in waking life. The tension between the economic and cultural drivers of social acceleration is perpetuated by its structural motor, which generates an ambivalent position for the sleep of white-collar employees. This renders sleep both dispensable and indispensable at the same time.

Subject Keywords

Sleep, acceleration, deceleration, time pressure, flexibility, TIME, SOCIOLOGY, WORK, acceleration, deceleration, flexibility, Sleep, time pressure

URI

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85140996254&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101680

Journal

International Review of Sociology

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2022.2139573

Collections

Department of Sociology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Sleep go away, I don’t have much time left to live: Is bedtime procrastination related to perceived time left in life? OKAY GÜNAY, DENİZ; Türkarslan, Kutlu Kağan; ÇEVRİM, MUSTAFA; Bozo Özen, Özlem (2022-01-01) Objective: Sleep insufficiency is a common public health problem associated with various psychological and physical health outcomes. A recently proposed cause for sleep insufficiency is bedtime procrastination. Despite existing research about the concept, its underlying factors are mostly unclear. Considering the theoretical analogy between sleep time and the end of the day, the current study presents an explanation for bedtime procrastination. This study aims to examine the effect of future time perspectiv...
Smart Cities as Drivers of a Green Economy Balaban, Osman ( Elsevier: Academic Press, 2019-09-01) The current economic system is highly unsustainable. It has created an economic crisis and an ecological crisis, which seriously threaten the future of our planet and societies. Both crises could be overcome by transitioning to a green economy. The green economy concept is based on the idea that the conventional model of economic development is socially and environmentally unsustainable, and argues that we should move toward a new economy, which respects natural boundaries and ecological limits, and respond...
Collaborative working spaces: project ecologies and means of interaction and collaboration Ertan, Seren; Gürsel Dino, İpek; Department of Architecture (2019) Industrial revolutions through time changed the nature of work and triggered a shift from a 'service' economy towards a knowledge-based economy that is derived from information and ideas. This shift, which was concerned with organizing data and products, to a 'knowledge' economy that relied on worldwide information and communications network, brought along the necessity of reconsidering work practices and concepts. Changing work practices caused organizations to become more agile and flexible towards consta...
Symbolic boundaries and social capital mobilization among low-income workers in Sincan, Turkey Uyanık, İbrahim Kaan; Rittersberger Tılıç, Helga İda; Department of Sociology (2018) This thesis explores how low-income workers mobilize their social capital in the labor market. Distinguishing accessed social capital from mobilized social capital, it analyzes the criteria of evaluation which low-income workers in their decision to give hand to their connections in job-finding assistance. It employs the concepts of symbolic boundaries and frames to understand why some individuals are deemed unworthy of helping in the labor market. It argues that symbolic boundaries, conceptual distinctions...
Innovation in Learning: Innovative Tools and Techniques for Learning Arpaci, Ibrahim; Gürbüz, Tarkan (2013-01-01) Innovation is a key for the growth, productivity, competitiveness, survival, and profitability in the today's competitive world. This paper examines the relevant aspects of literature on invention and innovation concepts, including characteristics of innovation, types of innovation, diffusion of innovation, innovation process, types of innovators, importance of innovation, tools and techniques for innovation. This study forms an extensive review of relevant academic literature through continuous iterative a...

Citation Formats

Ç. Topal and E. KURMUŞ, “Sleep as in/dispensable deceleration for acceleration: the ambivalent relation between social acceleration and sleep patterns of the white-collar employees in İstanbul,” International Review of Sociology, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85140996254&origin=inward.