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.
Home and Climate Change: Transforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
1st Edition
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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
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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...
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 radicalization among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book ...
Pandemics and Predicting the Probable: A Longitudinal and Mixed Methods Analysis of Covid-19 in Italy
1st Edition
By Maria Paola Faggiano, Carmelo Lombardo
April 29, 2026
This book provides the first systematic, quali-quantitative examination of how perception, orientation, and anticipation of the future are produced and reproduced in disruptive times. Utilizing an extensive and assorted Italian data set, it revolves around the contemporary sociological discussion ...
Digital Technologies and Aging in South Asia and Middle East: Transforming Elderly Care
1st Edition
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By Sheeba Khalid, Glenn W. Muschert, Driss Ed. Daran
April 14, 2026
Khalid, Muschert, and Daran explore how digital technologies are reshaping elderly care in South Asia and the Middle East, addressing the opportunities and challenges of this transformation through a critical sociological and interdisciplinary lens. The book examines whether technological ...
Pandemic Mothering and Neoliberalism: Insights from India
1st Edition
By Jagriti Gangopadhyay
April 06, 2026
Gangopadhyay defines new categories of motherhood, illustrating how mothers have crafted their own forms of motherhood care and developed the concept of neoliberal motherhood to reflect evolving ideals of motherhood in urban India. Through in-depth interviews with emerging motherhood identities, ...
Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World
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By Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, Paola Rebughini
March 13, 2026
What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. agency, reform vs. resistance, care vs. control. Across prisons, homes, gardens, seas, and cities, ...
Stories, Imaginations and Sociology: Essays in Honour of Ken Plummer
1st Edition
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By Eamonn Carrabine, Neli Demireva, Róisín Ryan-Flood, Nigel South
February 27, 2026
This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer – a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the ‘narrative turn’, to his explorations of ...
Medicine, Money, and Meaning: Practicing Money and Making Medicine
1st Edition
By Luka Jakelja
February 24, 2026
This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are. It empirically illustrates Georg Simmel’s conceptualization of money as an "absolute means" and ...
Politics of Sensibilities in Global Perspective
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By Adrian Scribano
February 04, 2026
This book introduces and analyses different ways of studying sensibilities. It explores the global production, circulation, management, and reproduction of sensibilities in the 21st century and considers the link between emotions, body, and society. Emphasising the importance of addressing the ...