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.
Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasmin Hristov, Jeb Sprague, Aaron Tauss
May 31, 2023
This book examines the phenomenon of paramilitarism across Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, offering a nuanced perspective while identifying key patterns in the way paramilitary violence is implicated in processes of capital accumulation, state-building, and the ...
Sociology of World Heritage: An Asian Perspective
1st Edition
By Masahiro Ogino
May 31, 2023
Taking mainly Japanese and other Asian case studies as examples, Ogino examines the motivations behind the preservation of objects and sites considered to be of cultural significance. Using mainly the perspectives of Japanese approaches to cultural heritage, the book critiques the European logic of...
Suicide Social Dramas: Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Haim Hazan, Raquel Romberg
May 31, 2023
Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss over its unsettling incomprehensibility. An analysis of the social ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 2: Social Space and Symbolic Domination in Three Nations
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
May 31, 2023
The second volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies maps the distribution of social powers and associated properties and lifestyles in unparalleled detail by examining the results of a brand-new survey delivered in Sweden, Germany and the US. Continuing the cross-national ...
The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology: A Study in Social Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Cerulo, Adrián Scribano
May 31, 2023
The Emotions in the Classics of Sociology stands as an innovative sociological research that introduces the study of emotions through a detailed examination of the theories and concepts of the classical authors of discipline. Sociology plays a crucial role emphasizing how much emotional expressions...
The Paradigm of Social Interaction
1st Edition
By Nikolai Genov
May 31, 2023
The monograph The Paradigm of Social Interaction presents a paradigmatic synthesis in sociology. This is a reaction to the growing paradigmatic divisions in the discipline and an attempt at fostering the cumulative development of sociological knowledge. The suggested conceptual fusion includes ...
The Social Construction of the US Academic Elite: A Mixed Methods Study of Two Disciplines
1st Edition
By Stephanie Beyer
May 31, 2023
This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations. Based on a mixed methods study drawing on both interview and quantitative data, it ...
Understanding China through Big Data: Applications of Theory-oriented Quantitative Approaches
1st Edition
By Yunsong Chen, Guangye He, Fei Yan
May 31, 2023
Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand social change in China, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and ...
Creating a Shared Moral Community: The Building of a Mosque Congregation in London
1st Edition
By Judy Shuttleworth
March 31, 2023
This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK. The life of the mosque is described through religious practice, communal activities and informal encounters and the history and ideas that shaped the ...
Anxiety in Middle-Class America: Sociology of Emotional Insecurity in Late Modernity
1st Edition
By Valérie de Courville Nicol
January 09, 2023
Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious about anxiety and interested in tackling it as a moral and personal problem. Anxiety is the focus of...
Boredom and Academic Work
1st Edition
By Mariusz Finkielsztein
January 09, 2023
Introducing the notion of boredom into the academic context, Boredom and Academic Work proposes a fresh sociological perspective on boredom and academic work alike. It invites a reader to reflect on the essence of boredom and the nature of academic work from the sociological perspective. It ...
Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema
1st Edition
By Eugene Nulman
January 09, 2023
Using innovative interpretations of recent big budget films, Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema interrogates the social, political and economic landscape during and prior to the COVID-19 crisis and provides lessons for advancing progressive politics in a post-pandemic age. By exploring ...