DINBILIMLERI AKADEMIK ARASTIRMA DERGISI-JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN RELIGIOUS SCIENCES, cilt.10, sa.2, ss.121-174, 2010 (ESCI)
The phenomenon of time is an important subject of sociology in consideration of its social dimensions and manifestations. Because time is a fate of social life. Society exist and continue its existence within time, within time of the world, and with time. Societies, civilizations, cultures, social assets, such as families, religious groups and communities, political groups, economic organizations, nations, professional groups, etc. regulate their lives in social time or sociotemporal order. So time constitutes an indispensable and central dimension of society's existence and social life. In this study, time as a social reality is considered from the sociological perspective at the level of introduction.