SOCY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Early Modern Europe, Mobilities, Nationstates

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 227
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

Sociology has tended to analyze this society" without much self-criticism . Culture, we are told, no longer sits in places, but is hybrid, dynamic more about routes than roots. The social is no longer seen as bounded by societies", but as caught up in a complex array of twenty-first century mobilities" (cresswell 2006:1) Mobility as progress", freedom", opportunity", and modernity" itself. Mobility is socially produced motion": measurable, meaningful, experienced. Increasing mobility: the annihilation of space by time" (karl marx); new technologies of movement produce time-space compression" (giddens, harvey) where the world becomes smaller"; changing how people think of space and how places lose. Mobility in european feudal society was a luxury: the vast majority of people stayed where they were; tied to the land in an intensely territorial society. Villagers and town dwellers alike knew most of the others they were ever likely to meet , because they had ample opportunity to watch them" (1987:39).