Includes bibliographical references.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction / Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas S. Smith -- Part I : methodological issues, bodies, and the course of time -- Bodies of distraction / Petra Loffler -- Time capital and social gravity : two new concepts for sociology of Time / Marian Preda -- The sensory inscribed body vs. the rhythmic body : toward an embodied sociology / Bianca Maria Pirani -- Timing is everything : activating identity work / Anne F. Eisenberg and Ryan S. Graham -- Part II : case studies from metropolitan contexts -- Territorialized everydayness between proxemics and diastemics : space-time rhythms in a context of acceleration / Alicia Lindon -- Regulation of bodies and things: a structurationist note on robust innovation in regional clusters / Robert J. Schmidt -- Actors' life rhythms in the metropolitan art worlds / Chan Langaret -- Bodily rhythms and social rhythms in the resorts of the French alps : winter sport, nightlife, and seasonality near Mont Blanc / Andre Suchet -- Part III : bodily rhythms, synchronization, and emergent structure -- Synchronizing movement and perception: determinants and predictors of body-sense / Anabela Pereira -- Synchronization of forms of vitality dynamics in music therapy / Zaira Jagudina -- Intergroup conflict, cohesion, and interpersonal rewards : an experimental study / Stephen Benard -- Through space, against time : a glance at the phenomenon of orientalization / Alessandro Porrovecchio -- Synchronization and social interaction: innate mechanisms in attachment and emergent structure in social life / Thomas S. Smith -- Postface.