ABSTRACT
The study of the multiplicity of social times acquires particular importance when applied either to large, organized social bodies or to social classes and global societies. The sociologist cannot ignore indeed that each society, each social class, each particular group, each microsocial element or further, each level in the depth of social reality—indeed, every social activity has a tendency to operate in a time proper to itself. The effort to establish the relative cohesion and coordination of social times leads again to a new aspect of their manifoldness. The explosive time of creation appears only in connection with great reforms in the social structure and in works of art and philosophy. In particular, one of the essential characteristics of what is called "social structures" is the elaboration of a specific gradation of social times in which these social structures are moving and which they strive to dominate.
