Understanding Mobility in Social Sciences

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[...] It is throughout this reflection that the author develops his definition of mobility and allows for a critical view of the subject. From then on, a second problematic emerges, notably by relying on the work of Jauréguiberry dating back to 2003 on means of communication, the establishment of a distance from the original environment. According to the author, this step is decisive in order to understand the notion of mobility developed by the author: notably on the proximity that an individual can have between their current environment and their so-called original environment. [...]

[...] From these three grids of analysis, the mobility program is suggested by the author in order to allow the analysis of social dimensions through this prism. At the Roots of Mobility in Social Sciences - Caroline Gallez and Vincent Kaufmann (2009) Within this article written jointly by researchers Jean-Claude Chamboredon and Madeleine Lemaire - under the attentive guidance of Pierre Bourdieu - and published under the title Proximité spatiale et distance sociale in 1970, the authors question the notion linking the population of urban areas represented by 'large pre-constructed ensembles'. [...]

[...] Mobilities and the Sociology Program - Alain Bourdin (2005) ; At the Roots of Mobility in Social Sciences - Caroline Gallez and Vincent Kaufmann (2009) - Sociology and Mobility Mobilities and the Sociology Program - Alain Bourdin (2005) According to researcher Alain Bourdin, one can rely on mobility - a concept that is elusive and represents a passage from one stratum of society to another, from a domestic or international scale - to understand the social dimensions of a society. In fact, he considers 'mobility as a 'social sciences analyzer'. From then on, within the article titled Les mobilités and the Sociology Program, published by the Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) in 2005, the author seeks to question the concept of mobility behaviors. Alain Bourdin is a sociologist but also an urbanist. Throughout the article, the author raises several points of tension that he gathers around three problematics. [...]

[...] However, gradually, a break occurs: the authors see the emergence of subgroups that are particularized. These latter - who are from the same socioprofessional category - who act in a different way, leading to a fragmentation of class according to the location within which the subgroup is situated in a geographical perspective. From then on, it is observed that there is a social class trend, or social group, linked to the geographical representation at the reading of this article, allowing for a more refined understanding of the concepts of class and domination. [...]