Study Methodology

This chapter focuses on the background to the Sydney time studies, along with broad methodological issues that frame their development. The chapter begins with an overview of existing empirical work on folk concepts of time and explains why it is essential that the project move beyond this existing body of work. This established, the chapter then outlines some of the methodological difficulties that arise in any attempt to investigate the folk concept of time and explains how these difficulties can be overcome. The chapter closes by outlining a broad empirical strategy for investigating the folk concept of time.