Time and Sociology: From Theoretical Oversight to Analytical Omnipresence

Abstract

The article reviews the sociological approach to the study of the time from the classics of the discipline to the contemporary sociology. In spite of the references that the classical literature dedicates to the problem of  time, the later sociological output seems to not have to taken notice of these former theoretical ideas. This fact suggests an epistemological question about time: Is it a forgotten theoretical concept or an omnipresent analytical dimension?