The temporal collage: how British Quakers make choices about time at the beginning of the twenty first century

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/683 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/683 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/document/683 archive 4031 disk0/00/00/02/80 2009-10-09 11:09:33 2019-01-23 09:51:50 2011-07-19 16:15:10 thesis show 0 Frith Judy judy.frith.t21@btinternet.com Dandelion Pink University of Birmingham The temporal collage: how British Quakers make choices about time at the beginning of the twenty first century unpub BV BL 10col_artl This thesis argues that people create their own ‘temporal collages’ in order to balance competing and conflicting demands for time. It uses British Quakers as a case study. From the mid-twentieth century to 2008 the nature of work and family life have changed considerably, and this thesis shows how British Quakers balance those worldly changes in order to remain faithful and involved with the Religious Society of Friends. The Society is in numerical decline, has no paid clergy and relies heavily on time given voluntarily as service. Democratised relationships enable commitment in friendship networks, and the research demonstrates how social capital is built in the much-valued Quaker communities to which Friends belong. The thesis also reveals how Friends choose those communities, and describes what they want from involvement and what they gain. Throughout the thesis, time is considered to be polychronic in order to accommodate the varied qualities given in Friends’ descriptions about time. Polychronic time is heterogeneous and includes the paradoxes, cycles, juxtapositions, interconnections and linear time (that of clocks and calendars). These diverse elements of time are drawn upon to build individualised and flexible constructs with priorities that vary from person to person and are adjusted throughout a lifetime according to circumstance and choice. The result is a temporal collage, a descriptive tool for the way in which individuals compile choices about time. 2009-07-14 2008-08 graduation eng author unchecked This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) public 349 University of Birmingham School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Department of Theology and Religion d_ph FALSE other 2009-07-14 graduation