Editing Time (section)

== Use ==
{{See also|Time management}}

In sociology and [[anthropology]], time discipline is the general name given to [[society|social]] and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the [[social currency]] and awareness of time measurements, and people's expectations concerning the observance of these customs by others. [[Arlie Russell Hochschild]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hochschild |first=Arlie Russell |author-link=Arlie Russell Hochschild |title=The time bind: when work becomes home and home becomes work |title-link=Time bind |publisher=Metropolitan Books |year=1997 |location=New York}} {{isbn|978-0-8050-4471-3}}.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Russell Hochschild |first=Arlie |author-link=Arlie Russell Hochschild |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/magazine/there-s-no-place-like-work.html |title=There's no place like work |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=20 April 1997 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323235804/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/magazine/there-s-no-place-like-work.html |archive-date=23 March 2017 |access-date=20 February 2017 }}</ref> and [[Norbert Elias]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Elias |first=Norbert | author-link = Norbert Elias |title=Time: an essay |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford, UK Cambridge, US |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-631-15798-4}}</ref> have written on the use of time from a sociological perspective.

The use of time is an important issue in understanding [[human behavior]], education, and [[travel behavior]]. [[Time-use research]] is a developing field of study. The question concerns how time is allocated across a number of activities (such as time spent at home, at work, shopping, etc.). Time use changes with technology, as the television or the Internet created new opportunities to use time in different ways. However, some aspects of time use are relatively stable over long periods of time, such as the amount of time spent traveling to work, which despite major changes in transport, has been observed to be about 20–30 minutes one-way for a large number of cities over a long period.

[[Time management]] is the organization of tasks or events by first estimating how much time a task requires and when it must be completed, and adjusting events that would interfere with its completion so it is done in the appropriate amount of time. Calendars and day planners are common examples of time management tools.