Moral Orders of Mobility
Youth Aspirations and 'Doing' Social Position in Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Nikunen (0000-0001-5618-138X, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author), Hanna-Mari Ikonen (0000-0002-4370-5778, University of Jyväskylä) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 908-925 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1360780421997838 |
| OpenAlex | W3137936271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
By studying the moral orders that young Finnish adults (aged 18-30) attach to geographical mobility, this article reveals previously neglected relationships between aspiration and mobility. The 40 young adult interviewees are living in the midst of Finnish political debates about youth aspiration, which emphasise geographical rather than social mobility as a way to enhance employability and demonstrate aspiration. We argue that young people themselves use the discourse of geographical mobility by leaning on morally ordered social positionings which tend to be classed and gendered. They position themselves on a moral map of Finnish society, and in doing so they work and rework the social order and social hierarchies among young adults. The article suggests that notions of global and domestic mobility might best be grasped by focusing on the moral orders of aspiration that young adults also attach to intimate life
Employability · Political science · Politics · Social mobility · Social position · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Mobile Lives
Youth Transitions, International Student Mobility and Spatial Reflexivity
Values and moral judgement
Studies in ethnomethodology
Theoretical sociology
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Directions in sociolinguistics
Studies in Social Interaction
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth
Young people, future hopes and concerns in Finland and the European Union
The mobility imperative for rural youth
Come and live here and you'll experience it’
The brainy ones are leaving’
Transnational youth mobility in the neoliberal economy of experience
Between Mobility and Belonging
Locality and gendered capital of working-class youth
Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis
Having a top-class mindset? Post-feminism and the co-construction of class and mindset among young Finnish women
Gendered strategies of mobility and academic career
Complaints About Transgressions and Misconduct
From ‘academic concern’ to work readiness
Categorization and Moral Order
Sticky Subjects’ or ‘Cosmopolitan Creatives’? Social Class, Place and Urban Young People’s Aspirations for Work in the Knowledge Economy
Categorization and the moral order
Understanding Immobility
Imagining Personhood Differently
Belonging and the Self as Enterprise
Migration in the age of involuntary immobility
Don't you Think you're Missing Out, Living at Home?' Student Experiences and Residential Transitions
Manhunt
Practicing Power and Gender in the Field
The Consequences of Mobility
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |