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.
Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 1: Concepts and Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregor Fitzi, Juergen Mackert, Bryan Turner
September 30, 2020
There is no threat to Western democracies today comparable to the rise of right-wing populism. While it has played an increasing role at least since the 1990s, only the social consequences of the global financial crises in 2008 have given it its break that led to UK’s ‘Brexit’ and the election...
Queer Community: Identities, Intimacies, and Ideology
1st Edition
By Neal Carnes
September 30, 2020
The context for this work is defined by a second wave of social and political activity contextualized by queer. For example, three, self-identified black, queer women started the Black Lives Matter movement. For a new generation, the first-wave reclamation of queer speaks to their position in a ...
The Challenge of Modernity: Simmel’s Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By Gregor Fitzi
September 30, 2020
The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmel’s sociological theory is still a subject of controversy. Is Simmel only a brilliant impressionist, a flâneur in the territories of modernity?Providing an illuminating and coherent presentation of Simmel’s ...
Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power
1st Edition
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By John Martyn Chamberlain
August 14, 2020
This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social ...
State Looteries: Historical Continuity, Rearticulations of Racism, and American Taxation
1st Edition
By Kasey Henricks, David G. Embrick
August 14, 2020
Fifty years ago, familiar images of the lottery would have been strange, as no state lottery existed then. Few researchers have uncovered the obscure role lotteries play in the changing composition of American taxation. Even less is known about what role race plays in this process. More than simply...
São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century: Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities
1st Edition
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By Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
August 14, 2020
This book analyzes in detail the main social, economic and special transformation of the city of São Paulo. In the last 30 years, São Paulo has become a more heterogeneous and less unequal city. Contrary to some expectations, the recent economic transformations did not produce social polarization, ...
Values and Identities in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey
1st Edition
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By Michael J. Breen
August 14, 2020
Contrary to what is suggested in media and popular discourses, Europe is neither a monolithic entity nor simply a collection of nation states. It is, rather, a union of millions of individuals who differ from one another in a variety of ways while also sharing many characteristics associated with ...
Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
June 30, 2020
This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the ...
Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users’ Guide to Urban Space
1st Edition
By Christopher B.R. Smith
June 30, 2020
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social ...
Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Sue Westwood
June 30, 2020
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms ...
Beyond Capital: Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future
1st Edition
By David Hakken, Maurizio Teli, Barbara Andrews
June 30, 2020
The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a “great moderation” and the view that capitalism had overcome its systemic tendencies to crisis. The subsequent failure of contemporary social formations to address the causes of the crisis gives renewed impetus to better analysis ...
Call Centers and the Global Division of Labor: A Political Economy of Post-Industrial Employment and Union Organizing
1st Edition
By Andrew J.R. Stevens
June 30, 2020
Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. The offshoring and outsourcing of call center employment, part of the larger information technology and ...