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.
Internet Dating: Intimacy and Social Change
1st Edition
By Chris Beasley, Mary Holmes
January 09, 2023
Internet Dating deals primarily with the experiences of UK and Australian daters, examining their online accounts to see what kinds of narratives, norms, emotions and ‘chemistry’ shape their dating. Has the emergence and growth of internet dating changed the dating landscape for the better? Most ...
Languages and Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Literature Review
1st Edition
By Gabriela Meier, Simone Smala
January 09, 2023
A critical and systematic review of existing research located at the crossroads of sociology, social psychology and applied linguistics, Languages and Social Cohesion offers valuable insights for social contexts in which decision makers and researchers grapple with questions of social cohesion in ...
The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk
1st Edition
By John Gaffey
January 09, 2023
The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audiences are able to understand and navigate everyday risk. The book examines media risk narratives and explores forms of truth, experiential knowledge, and ...
The Home in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala, Richard Peatfield
January 09, 2023
The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.The book covers a wide variety of topics on the design, introduction and use of ...
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
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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?
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
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 ...