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9780754618423

Re-Thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754618423

  • ISBN10:

    0754618420

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-01-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This groundbreaking examination is carried out through a discussion of the following general question: to what extent can the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems be considered as vectors of social change? It also provides an opportunity to study in greater depth the little-known field of the sociology of mobility.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1(2)
Questioning Fluidity
3(18)
Insights from Empirical Research
21(14)
Re-thinking Spatial Mobility
35(14)
Mobile, therefore Free?
49(12)
The Use of Speed Potentials
61(14)
What Inequalities?
75(12)
The Production of Context
87(12)
Conclusion: Towards a Network Solidity?
99(6)
Bibliography 105(6)
Index 111

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