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.
Economic Sociology in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel, Alberto Veira-Ramos
May 06, 2025
This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe. Covering a range of case studies from different European countries and regions, the contributions analyse the effects of recent challenges...
Migration, Mobility and Education: Examining the Role of Family and Schooling
1st Edition
By Kate Hoskins, Bernard Barker
May 06, 2025
This book examines the role of family and schooling through an interpretive, qualitative, intergenerational case study. It examines the formation of academic and vocational aspirations by second generation (G2) migrant students from diverse international backgrounds. Looking at the influence of ...
Southern Theories: Contemporary and Future Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Mutanga, Tendayi Marovah
May 06, 2025
This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, ...
The New Social Contract Between Generations: Profiguration
1st Edition
By Fidel Molina-Luque
May 01, 2025
The cornerstone of this book is the innovative concept of profiguration, a term coined by Fidel Molina-Luque to encapsulate the essential agreement and recognition required between generations in contemporary society. Profiguration emphasises the intrinsic value of interdependence across all age ...
Avoiding Retirement in Chile: Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context
1st Edition
By Ignacio Cabib
April 29, 2025
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 ...
A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong
1st Edition
By Pauwke Berkers, Yosha Wijngaarden
April 21, 2025
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 ...
The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile
1st Edition
By Modesto Gayo, María Luisa Méndez
March 13, 2025
This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century. Contrary to perceptions that privileged individuals exist according to little more than market and economic logics, the book provides evidence that they are by ...
Class and Time-Based Subjective Inequality: Wealth Forecast
1st Edition
By Nicolas Duvoux
March 11, 2025
Challenging the inference in social science that taking subjectivity into account somehow conflicts with approaches that emphasize the reality of the material conditions of existence, this book shows how subjective perceptions of one’s future can help to capture class and inequality, considering ...
Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue
1st Edition
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By Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison, Akio Tanabe
January 28, 2025
Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature. Racism is not a uniquely ...
Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery
1st Edition
By Erkan Ali
December 18, 2024
Drawing on debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book examines what it means to offer a genuine sociological critique of religious faith, illiberalism and anti-secularism from a macro perspective. Arguing that as a discipline concerned with real issues in the social world, sociology ...
Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Christopher Thorpe
November 28, 2024
This book provides a historical cultural sociological analysis of cultural representations of Italy in England and later Britain, from the period of the Italian Renaissance to the present day. Rooted in a critical account of orthodox social scientific approaches to thinking and theorising cultural ...
Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies
1st Edition
By Denisa Butnaru
November 28, 2024
This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices. Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal “deviance” and “...