The Importance of the Week as an Organizing Principle

Hinkon argues that for increasingly urban populations, people moving more towards city life and wage labor, cycles of weeks were y a useful way to schedule a busy, voluntary life. He says it was the impersonal character of urban life that gave rise to the weak as a primary scheduling device. For example, if you're planning to see friends on a regular basis, you could just know that, you know, we get together every th Thursday.