ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the notions of mobilities and inequality. It examines a conceptual linkage of both key notions. The chapter then argues that thinking explicitly about the potential of being mobile enlarges the theoretical understanding of the mutual relation between mobilities and inequality. It provides concrete examples from current studies in transport studies with regard to social exclusion. The chapter concludes that being mobile and immobile are important factors of social differentiation and a generator of patterns of inequality. A close look at mobilities and inequality is a way of framing the spatialisation of cultural, political and social relations. Social stratification refers to unequally distributed resources, that is, wealth, status, prestige, or power, within a social system. The most widespread social stratification approach relates to social class. Social inequality and social stratification are interrelated; social stratification produces institutionalised patterns of inequality and patterns of inequality produce stratification structures.
