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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.

305 Series Titles


The Politics of Europeanisation Work and Family Life Reconciliation Policy

The Politics of Europeanisation: Work and Family Life Reconciliation Policy

1st Edition

By Nazlı Kazanoğlu
January 09, 2023

With the dramatic changes in the extent to which women and men contribute to unpaid domestic work and paid employment, work and family life reconciliation has become more prominent than ever on the European Union agenda. This comparative study examines the Europeanisation patterns of work and ...

Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

1st Edition

By Pierpaolo Donati
January 09, 2023

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003146698, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society...

Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France To Be like Everyone Else

Subaltern Workers in Contemporary France: To Be like Everyone Else

1st Edition

Edited By Olivier Masclet, Thomas Amossé, Lise Bernard, Marie Cartier, Marie-Hélène Lechien, Olivier Schwartz, Yasmine Siblot
December 30, 2022

This volume explores the lives and work of those who are kept out of poverty by their employment, but who occupy tenuous social positions and subaltern jobs. Presenting a score of household portraits – urban, suburban, and rural – the authors examine what it means to ‘get by’ in France today, ...

Regime Change in Turkey Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism and Hegemony

Regime Change in Turkey: Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism and Hegemony

1st Edition

Edited By Errol Babacan, Melehat Kutun, Ezgi Pinar, Zafer Yilmaz
September 26, 2022

Turkey’s new presidential regime, promoted and shaped by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has become a global template for rising authoritarianism. Its violence intensifi es the exigency for critical analysis. By focusing on neoliberal authoritarian, hegemonic and Islamist aspects, this ...

Socio-gerontechnology Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

1st Edition

Edited By Alexander Peine, Barbara Marshall, Wendy Martin, Louis Neven
September 26, 2022

Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and significant technological change and development. Outlining the basic principles of a new academic field, Socio-gerontechnology, this book explores common conceptual, theoretical and...

Prevent Strategy Helping the Vulnerable Being Drawn towards Terrorism or Another Layer of State Surveillance?

Prevent Strategy: Helping the Vulnerable Being Drawn towards Terrorism or Another Layer of State Surveillance?

1st Edition

Edited By David Lowe, Robin Bennett
August 01, 2022

Prevent Strategy is a collection of work from practitioners – youth workers and the police – and academics researching Prevent. This book examines overcoming the stigma attached to Prevent being implicitly racist, problems related to the section 26 duty, training staff on Prevent, ...

Rural Youth at the Crossroads Transitional Societies in Central Europe and Beyond

Rural Youth at the Crossroads: Transitional Societies in Central Europe and Beyond

1st Edition

Edited By Kai. A Schafft, Sanja Stanić, Renata Horvatek, Annie Maselli
August 01, 2022

Featuring chapters by an international group of scholars and academics, Rural Youth at the Crossroads discusses the challenges and contexts facing youth from rural communities in countries with legacies of socialism undergoing social, political, and economic transition. The chapters employ a...

Urban Secularism Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe

Urban Secularism: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Europe

1st Edition

By Julia Martínez-Ariño
August 01, 2022

While French laïcité is often considered something fixed, its daily deployment is rather messy. What might we learn if we study the governance of religion from a dynamic bottom-up perspective? Using an ethnographic approach, this book examines everyday secularism in the making. How do city actors ...

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement: Navigating Everyday Life in Beirut

1st Edition

By Liliana Riga, Mary Holmes, Arek Dakessian, Johannes Langer, David Anderson
August 01, 2022

Young Refugees and Forced Displacement is about young Syrian and Iraqi refugees navigating the complex realities of forced displacement in Beirut. It is based on a British Academy funded two-year project with 51 displaced youths aged 8 to 17 and under the care of three local humanitarian ...

Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds

Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds

1st Edition

Edited By Liv Egholm, Lars Bo Kaspersen
May 30, 2022

Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process. Through empirical studies focusing primarily on Denmark and covering the period from 1849 to the present day, it analyses the manner in...

Housing and Domestic Abuse Policy into Practice

Housing and Domestic Abuse: Policy into Practice

1st Edition

By Yoric Irving-Clarke, Kelly Henderson
May 30, 2022

Housing and Domestic Abuse provides an analysis of how housing policy has been historically utilised in responding to domestic abuse. The authors trace the history of policy from the feminist roots of the refuge movement, to the use of ‘anti-social behaviour’ legislation to address abuse, and the ...

Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

Indigenous Invisibility in the City: Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

1st Edition

By Deirdre Howard-Wagner
May 30, 2022

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. ...

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