Routledge Advances in Sociology
About the Book Series
This series presents cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of sociology. It provides a broad range of case studies and the latest theoretical perspectives, while covering a variety of topics, theories and issues from around the world. It is not confined to any particular school of thought.
A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong
1st Edition
By Pauwke Berkers, Yosha Wijngaarden
July 20, 2026
A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology and the sociologies of interactions and emotions, this book develops the first comprehensive sociology of awkwardness. It provides an understanding of ...
Avoiding Retirement in Chile: Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context
1st Edition
By Ignacio Cabib
July 20, 2026
Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories and relying on primary longitudinal qualitative data (life- story interviews with 90 older workers) and primary longitudinal quantitative data (life-course calendar surveys among 802 older individuals), Avoiding Retirement in Chile ...
Home and Climate Change: Transforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
June 19, 2026
This book highlights the role of the home as a central social unit of resilience in the face of climate change and sustainable living in contemporary cities. It examines how climate change affects households, how we can curb its impact, and how policy, planning, architecture and economy can be ...
Social Construction as a Complex Attractor: The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence
1st Edition
By John A. Smith, Anna Wilson
June 12, 2026
This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought. The idea that reality is socially constructed has dominated sociological thinking since Berger and Luckmann’s ...
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Sharenting: Parenting, Privacy, and Consent
1st Edition
Edited
By Gergely Ferenc Lendvai, Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú, Anca Velicu, András Koltay
June 12, 2026
This book explores sharenting—the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children online—and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society. Offering a transdisciplinary framework that ...
Failure Irrationality: Obsession, Engendering and Sound in Contemporary Policymaking
1st Edition
By Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki
June 10, 2026
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning. Policy failures are rational in that they entertain...
Young Migrant Narratives: Ontological Security, Identity, and Belonging in Scotland
1st Edition
By Marcus Nicolson
June 08, 2026
This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative. Drawing on narrative interviews and ...
Deysi, Gender, and Violence: Making a Life Under Democracy and Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Ana S.Q. Liberato
May 22, 2026
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic. Deysi’s life narrative is a microhistory that sheds light on the intersection of gender, ...
Dynamics of Uncertainty, Unrest and Fragility in Europe: In the Shadow of the Ukraine and Migration Crises
1st Edition
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By Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen
May 22, 2026
This book examines some of the most pressing issues affecting contemporary societies in Europe in the 2020s, namely uncertainty, unrest and the fragility of individuals and groups. Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen and their contributors analyse a selection of challenges affecting the present and near ...
Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment
1st Edition
Edited
By Annalisa Murgia
May 22, 2026
This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human ...
Legacies of the Surveillance State: Communities Living in the Shadows
1st Edition
By Cliodhna Pierce
May 22, 2026
In an age of invasive technology and mass data collection, how can we understand the true impact of surveillance on our lives and communities? Legacies of the Surveillance State offers a chilling exploration of two historical surveillance societies: East Germany and Northern Ireland during the ...
Youth Radicalisation in Europe: Nativists vs. Islamists
1st Edition
By Ayhan Kaya
April 30, 2026
Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalisation among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book ...