Social regimes of sleep and wakefulness

Abstract

Basic theoretical problems of sociology of sleep and analysis of the main concepts of this field of study are represented in the article. Sleep is concerned as an act, integrated into the social order. Special attention is drawn to the influence on plasticity and corporeality of sleep and its institutionalization. An idea of the contextual balance, which can be found in interaction between mechanisms of institutionalization and sleep implementation, is proposed in the article.