International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2024, 6(10); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2024.061003.
Qilong Song
Teaching and Research Department of Sociology, C.P.C Party School of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, China
The acceleration of science and technology provides a solid social and material basis for “Military-style” travel"; the acceleration of social change makes people rethink the meaning of life and reconstruct social relations by using “Military-style” travel; the acceleration of life rhythm intensifies people's anxiety about death, thus making people more eager to get instant satisfaction. “Military-style” travel is the product of the transformation of accelerated social time structure. The logic of capital growth penetrates into individual time perception through mass media and creates a new time structure, which deliberately creates the "time anxiety" of the whole society, and at the same time uses the "time anxiety" to tie the value of people and consumption together, forming the alienation of people.
“Military-style” travel; Accelerated society; Alienation
Qilong Song. Accelerated Society and Time Alienation: A Sociological Analysis of “Military-style” Travel. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 10: 15-21. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.061003.
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