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.
Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People's Enterprise
1st Edition
By Joy White
June 28, 2018
Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of ...
The Precarious Generation: A Political Economy of Young People
1st Edition
By Judith Bessant, Rys Farthing, Rob Watts
May 09, 2018
This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first ...
God, Politics, Economy: Social Theory and the Paradoxes of Religion
1st Edition
By Bulent Diken
April 25, 2018
The book intervenes into the contemporary debate on religion, politics, and economy, focusing on the field of formation which emerges as these seemingly autonomous spheres encounter one another. Empirically, it concentrates on examples from literature, theatre, and cinema as well as a case study ...
Sharing Lives: Adult Children and Parents
1st Edition
By Marc Szydlik
April 25, 2018
Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference point for studies on the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong ...
Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
By Daniel Muriel, Garry Crawford
March 19, 2018
Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life. Video games are becoming an increasingly ...
Human Sciences and Human Interests: Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences
1st Edition
By Mikael Klintman
March 09, 2018
Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what ...
Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim
1st Edition
By Ozlem Goner
January 08, 2018
This book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim – a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi ...
American Smuggling as White Collar Crime
1st Edition
By Lawrence Karson
June 30, 2017
When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever it was advantageous to do so. Yet since the founding of the American Republic, numerous otherwise ...
International Migration and Ethnic Relations: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Dahlstedt, Anders Neergaard
June 07, 2017
Each day, in so many aspects of daily life, we are reminded of the significance of migration and ethnicity. This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents ...
Emotion and Social Structures: The Affective Foundations of Social Order
1st Edition
By Christian von Scheve
May 25, 2017
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in ...
Cities of Culture: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Deborah Stevenson
May 18, 2017
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging ...
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Maginn, Christine Steinmetz
April 28, 2017
(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited ...