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Chronocentrism

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for space, which states that no spatial location is any more or less special of a frame of reference than any other spatial location (i.e., that our physical universe has no center). Some authors have extended this to also include that no point in time is any more or less special than any other point
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in February, 1974. Fowles described chronocentrism as "the belief that one's own times are paramount, that other periods pale in comparison". A critical view described it as the belief that only the present counts and that the past is irrelevant except to serve as a reference to a few basic
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in the workplace. Chronocentricity: "...only seeing the value of one's own age cohort...described the tendency for younger managers to hold negative perceptions of the abilities or other work-related competencies of older employees." This type of discrimination is a form of
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was an example of chronocentrism (in the early years of computing, the years 2000 and 1899 were believed to be too far in the future or the past, and thus of less importance than being able to save two digits in computerizing and typing out years).
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is an organization that encourages the use of 5-digit years, e.g. "02016" instead of "2016," to help emphasize how early the present time is in their vision of the timeline of humanity. The use of two-digit years before
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assumptions about what went before. More recently, it has been defined as "the egotism that one's own generation is poised on the very cusp of history". The term had been used earlier in a study about attitudes to
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Until the twentieth century, chronocentrism was the norm in musical performance because musicians assumed that playing styles survived largely unchanged from previous centuries. For instance,
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to one's own time could lead an individual as a member of a collectivity to impose their forms of time on others and impede the efforts towards more homogeneous temporal commons.
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is the perceiving and judging of a culture's historical values in terms of the standards of one's own time period.
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is a special point in time that can be logically used as a frame of reference to date later events).
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The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century
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meaning "time") was coined by sociologist Jib Fowles in an article in the journal
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musicians used contemporary styles when performing earlier repertoire.
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The five ages of the universe : inside the physics of eternity
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provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject
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The "Copernican time principle" is a temporal analog of the
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Recentism
Recency bias
Knowledge (XXG):Recentism
improve it
talk page
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improve the article
providing more context for the reader
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splitting
disambiguation page
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time periods
present
morality
technology
sophistication
chrono-
ageing
ageism
ethnocentrism
Long Now Foundation
Y2K
Copernican principle
steady-state theories
Big-Bang singularity
Romantic
Ageism
Anthropocentrism

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