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.
Globalisation and Pandemic Management: Issues and Outcomes from COVID-19
1st Edition
By Chris L. Peterson
August 29, 2025
This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience. It presents the effects of COVID-19 on global and local labour markets, the development of digitisation and technology, of work health, and ...
Magic, Science and Society
1st Edition
By Alex Dennis
August 29, 2025
Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 3: Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
August 29, 2025
This book continues the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series by exploring the place of class among a confluence of factors in shaping people’s lives, loves and lifestyles across three nations. Previous volumes in the series examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class ...
Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving
1st Edition
By Paula Ambrossi
July 31, 2025
While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies ...
Education Strategy in a Changing Society: Personalised, Smarter, Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Martin Slattery
July 31, 2025
Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the 21st century. It examines the post-pandemic paradigm shift in educational practice in countries around the world and presents international case studies of emerging future ...
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall: German Unification and Transformation Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt
July 30, 2025
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and ...
Sociology of Hope: A New Theory
1st Edition
By Adrian Scribano
July 01, 2025
This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the “state of the art” of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women, and to the reconstruction of the ...
Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism
1st Edition
By Michael A. Long, Andrew S. Fullerton, Paul B. Stretesky
May 27, 2025
This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post‑World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism – the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual ...
A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars
1st Edition
By Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen, Josetxo Beriain
May 06, 2025
This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and ...
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...
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 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 ...