ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the first analysis and comparison of Zygmunt Bauman and John Urry's recent mobile and spatial metaphors though a lens of social inequality. Indeed, major sociologists like Zygmunt Bauman and John Urry as part of a new mobility paradigm argue that nowadays we are all on the move and sometimes it seems as if the world is all on the move. Bauman's metaphors of tourist versus vagabond paint a gloomy picture of contemporary life experiences and expectancies as being worlds apart. Bauman's metaphors of exit and escape insist that the powerful in the post-engagement age evade their social and moral obligation and detest any type of commitment apart from the compulsion to consume. Network capital and meetingness are two of the most central metaphors in John Urry's mobile sociology. Urry also emphasises how information and communication technologies and especially new kinds of software change the nature of business and social life.
