{"id":43226,"date":"2012-03-11T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43226"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:48:44","slug":"the-social-construction-of-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/11\/the-social-construction-of-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Construction of Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/11.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43232\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/11.png\" width=\"558\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/11.png 558w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/11-500x112.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a>In a wonderful example of the social construction of time, there was no Friday, December 30th, 2011 in Samoa (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2011\/12\/28\/144385201\/there-will-be-no-friday-this-week-in-samoa\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The country decided to move from one side of the International Dateline to the other. \u00a0The move, accomplished by skipping forward 24 hours, will allow it to align its week with its largest trading partners:\u00a0Australia, New Zealand, China and Tonga. \u00a0Many business leaders were thrilled at the switch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hu1E05xj610?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to sociologist <a href=\"http:\/\/asociologist.com\/2011\/12\/28\/no-friday-in-samoa-this-week-or-the-social-construction-of-time-redux\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Hirschman<\/a> for the tip! \u00a0Also in the social construction of time: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/06\/social-construction-deviance-and-what-time-is-it-again\/\">Social Construction, Deviance, and Daylight Savings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wonderful example of the social construction of time, there was no Friday, December 30th, 2011 in Samoa (NPR). The country decided to move from one side of the International Dateline to the other. \u00a0The move, accomplished by skipping forward 24 hours, will allow it to align its week with its largest trading partners:\u00a0Australia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8068,293,76],"class_list":["post-43226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nation-samoa","tag-social-construction","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43226"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58448,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43226\/revisions\/58448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}