Measuring Modern Discipline: A Re-Examination of Type and Variant Indices Using Ceramics from the Monterey Site in the Central Bluegrass Region of Kentucky

Deborah L. Rotman; Andrew Bradbury

Measuring Modern Discipline: A Re-Examination of Type and Variant Indices Using Ceramics from the Monterey Site in the Central Bluegrass Region of Kentucky

Author(s): Deborah L. Rotman; Andrew Bradbury

Year: 2002

Summary

Modern discipline encompasses the strategies used under industrial capitalism to regulate work and measure time. E. P. Thompson called them “time routines” and “work discipline.” Mark Leone, building on the work of Thompson and Foucault, developed ceramics formulas for measuring the degree of penetration of these ideas in individual households. Our research tests Leone’s formulas using the ceramic data from the village of Monterey in central Kentucky and diversity indexing. Families of varying socioeconomic class and ethnicity occupied the three households in our study, including freed African-Americans, an affluent white merchant, and a lower to middle class farmer.

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Measuring Modern Discipline: A Re-Examination of Type and Variant Indices Using Ceramics from the Monterey Site in the Central Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. Deborah L. Rotman, Andrew Bradbury. Lexington, Kentucky: Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 2002 ( tDAR id: 391920) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8J968FX