Sociologia delle temporalità

This project develops a sociology of temporalities by investigating the social processes through which individuals and groups actively construct, negotiate, and coordinate time. Moving beyond conceptions of time as either a physical reality or a subjective experience, the project approaches temporalities as socially produced configurations emerging from practices, representations, and institutional devices that organize collective life. Temporalities are understood as plural, relational, and historically situated forms through which social actors synchronize activities, orient themselves within social worlds, and produce meaningful connections between past, present, and future. Drawing on classical and contemporary social theory—from Durkheim, Mauss, and Halbwachs to Bourdieu, Rosa, and recent French sociology of temporalities—the project proposes a systematic framework for analysing temporal phenomena across multiple scales, including everyday life, biographical trajectories, work, care relations, gender dynamics, and historical processes. Rather than treating time as a neutral container of social action, it examines how social practices actively generate temporal orders and how these orders shape experiences of inequality, dependence, autonomy, and social change. Particular attention is devoted to the ways temporalities structure contemporary transformations of labour and care. The increasing flexibilization of work, the fragmentation of life courses, and the unequal distribution of care responsibilities reveal the existence of competing temporal regimes that differently affect social groups according to class, gender, and position within social structures. Through the analysis of these temporal regimes, the project seeks to uncover the often invisible mechanisms through which power, inequality, and social coordination are reproduced. By conceptualizing temporalities as empirical objects and analytical tools, the project contributes to a renewed understanding of social life that places processes of temporalization at the centre of sociological inquiry. It ultimately argues that social actors do not simply exist in time; rather, through their practices, they continuously make time and, in doing so, produce the social worlds they inhabit.