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Vincent Kaufmann (), Gil Viry, Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin (), Emmanuel Ravalet () and Yann Dubois
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Vincent Kaufmann: LASUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gil Viry: School of Social and Political Science - The University of Edinburgh
Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin: LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Emmanuel Ravalet: LASUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Yann Dubois: LASUR - Laboratoire de sociologie urbaine - EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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Abstract: Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for family and career development. Throughout the book, we found that the importance of the high mobility phenomenon lies mainly in what it reveals of societal changes. From a theoretical viewpoint, high mobility challenges the conceptual apparatus of sociology, revealing changes in the spatiality of contemporary societies. In particular, high mobility illustrates the changing nature of what is nearby, what is connected and what moves, thereby changing their very meanings. From an empirical viewpoint, high mobility provides a powerful lens for exploring a broad range of dimensions of social life, such as socialisation, social inequality, sense of place, territory and potential receptiveness, personal life and gender. We now turn to a brief summary of our major findings and discuss them in relation to the initial research questions.

Keywords: High Mobility; societal changes; spatiality of contemporary societies; dimensions of social life (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Gil Viry; Vincent Kaufmann. High Mobility in Europe. Work and Personal Life, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.209-218, 2015, 978-1-137-44737-1. ⟨10.1057/9781137447388⟩

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137447388

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