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<journal-id>0187-0173</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Sociológica (México)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Sociológica (Méx.)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0187-0173</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0187-01732005000200105</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Cuándo, dónde y cuánto. El tiempo, el espacio y las medidas como problemas sociológicos]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Vera]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Héctor]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,hhvera@hotmail.com  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2005</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>20</volume>
<numero>58</numero>
<fpage>105</fpage>
<lpage>129</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0187-01732005000200105&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0187-01732005000200105&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0187-01732005000200105&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente artículo se propone mostrar que el tiempo, el espacio y las medidas pueden ser objetos de investigación sociológica. En este sentido, se parte de la premisa de que hay una fuerte influencia social en la forma en que las personas organizan el tiempo y el espacio, lo mismo que en la manera en cómo miden las cosas. Dos casos concretos son expuestos para ilustrar esta idea: primero, el desarrollo histórico del calendario occidental; segundo, el origen del sistema métrico decimal de pesas y medidas, creado durante la Revolución Francesa.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article argues that time, space and systems of measurement can be the object of sociological research. In that sense, it is based on the premise that there is a strong social influence on the way in which people organize time and space and in how they measure things. It delves into two concrete cases to illustrate this idea: first, the historic development of the Western calendar; second, the origin of the decimal metric system of weights and measures, created during the French Revolution.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sociología del tiempo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[sociología del espacio]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[sociología de los sistemas de medición]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[calendarios]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[sistema métrico]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Revolución Francesa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sociology of time]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sociology of space]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sociology of systems of measures]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[calendars]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[metric system]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[French Revolution]]></kwd>
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