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

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.

现代规训（discipline）涵盖了工业资本主义语境下用于管控劳动与计量时间的各类策略。E·P·汤普森（E. P. Thompson）将其称为“时间惯例”与“劳动规训（work discipline）”。马克·莱昂（Mark Leone）在汤普森与福柯（Foucault）的研究基础上，开发出用于衡量此类观念在个体家庭中渗透程度的陶瓷分析公式。本研究借助肯塔基州中部蒙特雷村的陶瓷遗存数据与多样性指数分析法，对莱昂的陶瓷分析公式进行了验证。本次研究涵盖的三个家庭户分属不同社会经济阶层与族裔背景，包括获解放的非裔美国人家庭、富裕的白人商人家庭，以及中低收入阶层的农户家庭。