Information Studies
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

Concept and Expression of Time: Cultural Variations and Impact on Knowledge Organization: PART 2: Socio-cultural Differences*

  • Author:
  • A. Neelameghan1, G.J. Narayana2
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • Page Number: 125 to 140

Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, Bangalore, India

1E-mail: anm2002@vsnl.net

*PART 1: Sociocultural Evolution and Information’ was published in Information Studies, 18(1): p. 3–16

Abstract

Concept of Time is almost universal in all cultures, but there are significant differences among different societies/cultures in the manner in which Time is measured/calculated, expressed and used in daily life. Select examples of the concept of Time and expression of ‘past’, ‘present’, and ‘future’ in different cultures and life courses are briefly described in this essay.