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I/Introduction.- General Theoretical Orientation.- The Relation of Sociological Theory to Study of Time.- II/The Problem of Time.- Jean Piaget's Definition.- Is Multiple Time Possible?.- Bergson and the Problem of Time.- The Problem of Time in Contemporary Physics.- The Multiple Manifestations of Time in Different Sciences.- Social Time.- Varieties of Social Time.- Sociological Time and Historical Time.- III/The Depth Levels and Social Time.- Ecological Time.- Time Characteristic of Organizations.- The Time of Conduct of Some Regularity of Patterns, of Rules, of Signals and Signs.- Time of Social Roles and Collective Attitudes.- Time of Symbols, Ideas and Collective Values.- Collective Mentality and Time.- IV/The Micro-Social Framework and its Time: The Manifestations of Sociability.- Time Belonging to Mass Sociability.- Community Sociability and Its Time.- Time Characteristic of Communion Sociability.- The Time Characteristic of Approach, Withdrawal and Mixed Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations.- V/The Particular Groupings and Their Social Time.- The Criteria for Classification of Groups.- Time of Groupings Classified According to Their Duration.- Time of Groupings Classified by Their Rhythm.- Time of Groups Classified According to Their Dispersion.- Time of Groups Classified According to Mode of Admission.- Time of Groups Classified by Functions.- Time of Groupings Classified According to Their Orientation.- VI/The Social Classes and Their Scales of Social Time.- The Peasant Class and Its Scales of Social Time.- The Bourgeois Class and Its Scales of Social Time.- The Proletarian Social Time Scale.- The Middle Classes and the Techno-Bureaucrats; Their Social Time Scales.- VII/Global Societies and Their Time Scales.- The Time Scales of Archaic Societies.- The Types of Historical Societies.- Charismatic Theocracies and Their Social Time Scales.- The Patriarchal Societies and Their Scales of Time.- The Feudal Societies and Their Time Scales.- The Ancient City-States Becoming Empires and Their Time Scales.- VIII/The Time Scales of Modern Societies.- Nascent Capitalistic Global Societies and Their Time Scales.- The Time Scales of Democratic-Liberal Global Societies with Developed Competitive Capitalism.- IX/The Time Scales of Contemporary Societies.- The Time Scales of the Managerial Society of Organized Capitalism.- The Time Scales of the Fascist Society Based on Techno-Bureaucracy.- The Time Scales of the Planned, Centralized, Collectivist State.- The Time Scales of the Planned, Decentralized, Pluralistic, Collectivistic Society.- Conclusion.