Mobility - polysemy with interdisciplinary valences

Abstract

"The paper aims to demonstrate the inseparable interconnections between “social mobility”, “intellectual mobility” and “spatial mobility” (residential and traffic/trips). The broad themes of mobility reveal the unity that emerges from the ontological, sociological, and epistemic connections among various disciplines belonging to the human, natural and applied sciences. This unity of the disciplines involved in the study of mobility leads to interdisciplinarity. Three types of interdisciplinarity are identified and exemplified. The functions of interdisciplinarity result from the multiple structures involved in mobility research. To meet these functions, the contributions of the disciplines from several fields are decisive. But, disciplinary analysis, as a straightforward technique, monotonous and strictly specialized research tends to isolate experts in groups. Therefore, a further interdisciplinary approach is required to reach the finality of theoretical and applied research. Consequently, the path that research has been taken and will repeatedly continue starts from disciplinary research towards interdisciplinary research, and returns to disciplines, for improvement. "