The recent social structuration theories speak about liquefaction. However, these liquid models fail to deliver satisfactory explanation of contemporary sociation; the thesis of this article is that this is due to insufficient reflection on space‐time. Three points are to be discussed: the questionable distinction between social and geographical space, which these models use to diagnose current patterns of social structuration as resulting from new time–space experience; the certainty of periodization, which privileges time over space; and the persistence of a ‘container’ understanding of space. It is necessary to work out a better understanding of the current time–space relations on the one hand, and to develop a method to grasp conceptually the meta‐change on the other. The second can be achieved with the help of the theory of reflexive modernization. This theory, however, does not offer much insight into the exact time–space relations, thus the first postulate requires further empirical research. This article, based on a study of mobile transnational professionals, attempts to fulfill both postulates and to work out its own theoretical frameworks for researching mobility, spatialization and social structuration.

Magdalena Nowicka

Mobilities

Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

The journal Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more localized processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

《Mobilities》期刊探讨了人、物体、资本和信息在全球范围内的大规模流动，以及日常交通、公共和私人空间的移动，以及日常生活中物质的旅行等更为本地化的过程。近年来，交通和通信基础设施的发展，以及新的社会和文化流动实践，给流动性协调和治理、流动权利和获取的保护带来了新的挑战。这些变化催生了许多新的研究方法和理论，帮助我们理解不同流动性与静止状态之间的联系。

Category	Quartile
社会学	2
社会学, 地理学	3
社会学, 交通运输	3

Mobility, Space and Social Structuration in the Second Modernity and Beyond

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