Life in a Men's Homeless Shelter and the Relevance of Time as a Moral Force

"In addition to these conditions, implicit in the shelter's system--its rules, processes, and objectives--is a moral evaluation of the residents as time deviants. The shelter assumes two things: that to be a functional member of U.S. society one must respect time schedules and that the residents have failed to demonstrate this respect. The shelter, then, assumes that it must train the residents to respect time if the men are to be rehabilitated and placed back into mainstream society. The logic of this time education flows from an ideal time morality which the shelter ""constructed"" but which corresponds with the ideology of interdependence that is popular in contemporary discourse. Time therefore has two functions in the shelter: it is used to control the residents and to morally discipline them. The central thrust of my theoretical task, therefore, is to conceptualize time as a moral artifact rather than as a purely necessary device for modern organizational logistics. ftn $\sp1$The names of all localities and persons, except when referring to other researchers, are fictitious."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Condon, Mark Casey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bordua, David

• Urban and Regional Planning

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9834764

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86242