ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to investigate the place of mobility in social life. It investigates the framing capacity of the metaphors and their ability to not only direct author's gaze but form particular images of the world. The chapter also investigates the process of theory-building not only in terms of the current phase, but also in terms of the formation of images of social life in the past. The assumption that a common culture is the necessary social cement that makes social life possible has also been influential in anthropology, with the myth of the isolated integrated tribal society. A. Giddens suggests that two images of modernity have dominated sociological literature. If the first image emphasizes the dark side of enlightenment and reason to present an image of modernity as fixed, static, and closed, the second image emphasizes modernity as continual change driven by the need to deal with the disorder that it both seeks out and generates.
