Open AccessOur “Increasingly Mobile Society”? The Curious Persistence of a False Belief
Author(s) -
Douglas A. Wolf,
Charles F. Longino
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/45.1.5
Subject(s) - demography , worry , persistence (discontinuity) , geographic mobility , population , gerontology , psychology , demographic economics , medicine , sociology , economics , anxiety , geotechnical engineering , psychiatry , engineering
We call attention to the widespread belief that the United States is an "increasingly mobile society," despite the fact that overall mobility has generally declined since about 1950, and interstate mobility has generally not increased during the same period. We review and extend past research documenting these mobility trends.
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