In this ground-breaking contribution to social theory, John Urry argues that the traditional basis of sociology – the study of society – is outmoded in an increasingly borderless world. If sociology is to make a pertinent contribution to the undersanding of the ‘post-societal’ era it must forget the social rigidities of the pre-global order and, instead, switch its focus to the study of physical, imaginative and virtual movements. In considering this ‘sociology of mobilities’, the book concerns itself with the travels of people, ideas, images, objects, messages, waste products and money across international borders, and the implications these mobilities have for the experiences of time, space, dwelling and citizenship.
Sociology beyond Societies extends recent debate about globalisation, both by providing an analysis of how mobilities reconstitute social life in uneven and complex ways, and by arguing for the significance of objects, senses, time and space in the theorising of global processes.
John Urry is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.
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