Mobility has become the central axis of stratification in late modernity
Evidence
In the age when mobility is fast turning into the major factor of stratification, privilege and discrimination, a growing section of law-and-order concerns focuses on the figures of the prowler, stalker, traveller, migrant – on whom the diffuse fears of increasingly alien, wayward and erratic Umwelt converge; and on a tough police force, long prison sentences, high security prisons and capital punishment, as well as on the isolation and deportation of ‘undesirables’ – on these and other deemed remedies for the novel, off-putting and disturbing experience of the fluidity of space. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 653
Categorization
- XREF: Mobility as stratification directly feeds the Islamophobia field’s account of migrant exclusion; echoes Bauman’s broader work on liquidity. — connects to: Movement and migration have been humanity’s rule, not exception; Migration makes the diasporic experience the paradigmatic late-modern condition; Cultural value is historically mobile as forms move between elite and popular (+3 more)
Related
- Movement and migration have been humanity’s rule, not exception (similarity 0.85)
- Migration makes the diasporic experience the paradigmatic late-modern condition (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Migration makes the diasporic experience the paradigmatic late-modern condition
#expands(0.82) - Stratification once allowed society to control interdependence through sphere-specific status and roles
#contradicts(0.80) - Modern displacement integrates people into globalised communities rather than estranging them
#corroborates(0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 341 - Individual mobility decisions can destroy social capital others depend on involuntarily.
#expands(0.75) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 210 - Cultural value is historically mobile as forms move between elite and popular
#expands(0.72)