Mobility as a Tool for Sociology

xAccording to Marcel Mauss’ definition, mobility is a “total” social phenomenon, in other words a lens through which may be read all of the social relationships of a given society. As early as the 1920s, Robert Park declared that “the man gifted with locomotion” is the subject of urban sociology. The idea is therefore not new but, rather, was long left fallow. Concretely, the central place of mobility in sociology was ignored until the 1970s,...