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.
Conflict and the Social Bond: Peace in Modern Societies
1st Edition
By Michalis Lianos
December 18, 2020
Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we are programmed to bond and form communities that demand loyalty in order to let us belong. The analysis in this book cuts through the social sciences in ...
Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism: The Challenge of Religious Resurgence against the “End of History” (A Dialectical Kaleidoscopic Analysis)
1st Edition
By Dimitrios Methenitis
December 18, 2020
The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "End of History" narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike.Globalization, Modernity and the Rise of Religious Fundamentalism proposes that we must seek new ...
Horizontal Europeanisation: The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Heidenreich
December 18, 2020
Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780815392774+_oachapter8.pdfEuropean integration has ...
The Human Rights City: New York, San Francisco, Barcelona
1st Edition
By Michele Grigolo
December 18, 2020
We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with. Much less investigated is the question of what cities do with them, even though urban communities and municipalities have been discussing human rights for quite some time.In this volume, Grigolo borrows the...
The Marginalised in Genocide Narratives
1st Edition
By Giorgia Donà
December 18, 2020
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over 20years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide’s social history.Examining a range of marginal stories and using Rwanda as a...
The Social Structures of Global Academia
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabian Cannizzo, Nick Osbaldiston
December 18, 2020
Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies. Global networks of researchers, finance, students and policymakers invoke collaborative sociological perspectives. What it means to be an academic and to work in a technologically ...
Trade Unions and European Integration: A Question of Optimism and Pessimism?
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes Kiess, Martin Seeliger
December 18, 2020
Trade Unions and European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration. The Great Recession has brought new attention to structural problems of the European integration process, specifically monetary integration...
Youth and the Politics of the Present: Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
1st Edition
Edited
By Enzo Colombo, Paola Rebughini
December 18, 2020
Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues ...
DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes
1st Edition
Edited
By Andy Bennett, Paula Guerra
September 30, 2020
This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South ...
Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience: An Epistemological Critique
1st Edition
By Wing-Chung Ho
September 30, 2020
Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits that writing is epistemologically ...
ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counter Narratives
1st Edition
By Masood Raja
September 30, 2020
Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja asserts, it is this nexus of ...
Loneliness: A Social Problem
1st Edition
By Keming Yang
September 30, 2020
In recent years its medical implications have brought loneliness to the centre of attention of mass media, government agents, and the general public. However, as this volume demonstrates, loneliness is not merely a psychological, individual, or health issue. In multiple ways, it is a serious social...