Mobile sociology. 2000

Br J Sociol. 2010 Jan:61 Suppl 1:347-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01249.x.

Abstract

This article seeks to develop a manifesto for a sociology concerned with the diverse mobilities of peoples, objects, images, information, and wastes; and of the complex interdependencies between, and social consequences of, such diverse mobilities. A number of key concepts relevant for such a sociology are elaborated: 'gamekeeping', networks, fluids, scapes, flows, complexity and iteration. The article concludes by suggesting that a 'global civil society' might constitute the social base of a sociology of mobilities as we move into the twenty-first century.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Classical Article
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • History, 20th Century
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Internationality / history*
  • Social Change*
  • Social Mobility*
  • Sociology / history*
  • United Kingdom

Personal name as subject

  • John Urry