Time and space: Where the theories of nature meet those of culture

Authors

  • Geovane Ferreira Gomes Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2018.54.2.06

Abstract

Based on the need to understand social interactions in the present moment, which were accelerated by the use of information technologies, this article proposes to discuss how the concepts of time and space, used by the natural sciences as well as in the humanities, have changed in history. Its goal, through an interdisciplinary text, is to re-approximate these fields of knowledge. To do so, it retrieves how the concepts of time and space of physics, from Aristotle, Galilei, Newton and Einstein, and from the human sciences, with Marx, Weber, Harvey, Bauman and Giddens, have varied in history to demonstrate that changes in one area may correspond to transformations in the way of seeing time and space in another area of knowledge. As a result of the analysis, it points to the approximation of Aristotle’s theories with Marx, Weber with Galileo and Newton, and contemporary authors of the human sciences with Einstein.

Keywords: time and space, human sciences, natural sciences, cultural sciences.

Author Biography

Geovane Ferreira Gomes, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS)

Sociólogo (Unicamp 2006) e Engenheiro (FEI 1987). Mestre em Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (UFSCar 2010). Doutor em Sociologia (UFSCar 2015), com doutorado sanduíche na Universidade de Chicago. Atuou na área industrial e na área de educação. Atualmente é professor do Curso de Ciências Sociais na Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul. Atua com as seguintes temáticas: Sociologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia; Sociologia das Organizações; Conflito Organizacional; Sociologia da Educação.

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Published

2018-09-28

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 2 (2018): May/August

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