Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan

Microclass mobility: social reproduction in four countries.

In the sociological literature on social mobility, the long-standing convention has been to assume that intergenerational reproduction takes one of two forms: a categorical form that has parents passing on a big-class position to their children or a gradational form that has parents passing on their socioeconomic standing. These approaches ignore in their own ways the important role that occupa...

Satisfying Everyday Mobility

This paper engages with theoretical insights into understanding everyday travel (from the mobility turn and theories of social practice) in an analysis of everyday mobility using data from ethnographic research. The analysis of mobile performances draws attention to how travellers incorporate valued dispersed practices into mobility. We argue that incorporating such contingent practices into tr...

Self-regulation of Gendered Behavior in Everyday Life

The present research tested whether gender selfconcepts influence behavior through self-regulatory processes, with emotions and self-esteem signaling that people’s responses meet or fail to meet their gender standards. In the first study, cross-sectional survey data from 3,174 young adults living in the United States revealed that esteem increased with behavioral conformity to gender standards ...

Mobilizing partnerships for social change.

Gendered mobilities and social change—An introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Mobility and Social Change

This Special Issue on Gender, Mobility and Social Change examines the relationship between gender and social change in the context of migratory mobilities. Our aim in this introduction is two-fold. Firstly, to refresh the collective memory on the older andmore recent literature on gender andmigration, and second, to argue that the concept of social change should be brought firmly back onto the ...