ABSTRACT
Mobility and movement play an increasing role in the lives of the late modern individual. This chapter focuses on an understanding of time and space through the mobility sociological lens. A lot of research has been done in relation to auto mobility as it contains a number of identities and lifestyle-related significances. Research has also been done on how the public transport system can have the same meanings. The symbolic and emotional meanings have great importance for the individual, and the structural stories on mobility can often have a starting point in these meanings. Late modern society has a number of characteristics, such as individualization, reflexivity, time, space, risk and ambivalence, which are central for the formation of life politics. The seeking after, and formation of, these new communities is essential for the individual in late modern society. These new communities replace earlier times' tradition-bound communities, the primary function of which was facilitating exchange of everyday life experiences.
