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.
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development: On Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
June 30, 2020
It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus ...
Comedy and Social Science: Towards a Methodology of Funny
1st Edition
By Cate Watson
June 30, 2020
While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present their research rather seriously. In academia, humor tends to be trivialized and dismissed. This is ...
Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Boel Berner, Jane Summerton
June 30, 2020
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations. With ...
Equine Cultures in Transition: Ethical Questions
1st Edition
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By Jonna Bornemark, Petra Andersson, Ulla Ekström von Essen
June 30, 2020
Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand animal agency? These questions, asked both in theoretical discourses and different practices, are also relevant for our understanding of horses and the...
Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies
1st Edition
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By Enes Bayraklı, Farid Hafez
June 30, 2020
In the last decade, Islamophobia in Western societies, where Muslims constitute the minority, has been studied extensively. However, Islamophobia is not restricted to the geography of the West, but rather constitutes a global phenomenon. It affects Muslim societies just as much, due to various ...
Lifestyles and Subcultures: History and a New Perspective
1st Edition
By Luigi Berzano, Carlo Genova
June 30, 2020
Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say – to themselves and to others – who they think they are, who they think they are similar to, and who they think they are different from. Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at their own lives, and to try to ...
Multigenerational Family Living: Evidence and Policy Implications from Australia
1st Edition
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By Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope
June 30, 2020
Multigenerational living – where more than one generation of related adults cohabit in the same dwelling – is recognized as a common arrangement amongst many Asian, Middle Eastern and Southern European cultures, but this arrangement is becoming increasingly familiar in many Western ...
Reproductive Tourism in the United States: Creating Family in the Mother Country
1st Edition
By Lauren Jade Martin
June 30, 2020
This book examines the United States as a destination for international consumers of assisted fertility services, including egg donation, surrogacy, and sex selection. Based on interviews conducted with fertility industry insiders who market their services to an international clientele in three of ...
Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities: Beyond the Usual Distinctions
1st Edition
By Robert Shanafelt, Nathan W. Pino
June 30, 2020
Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and ...
The Bohemian Ethos: Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side
1st Edition
By Judith R. Halasz
June 30, 2020
The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians, from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg, continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion, advertising, and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked, however, is bohemians' ...
The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City
1st Edition
By Hanna Katharina Göbel
June 30, 2020
How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the social agencies of material culture and atmospheric knowledge of buildings in the making. It draws on ethnographic research in Berlin along the former Palace of the Republic, the E-Werk ...
Values, Economic Crisis and Democracy
1st Edition
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By Mălina Voicu, Ingvill C. Mochmann, Hermann Dülmer
June 30, 2020
For the past decade European countries have undergone a severe economic crisis, with severe consequences both for individuals and for governments. Unemployment and rising poverty have compelled individuals to reconsider their own priorities and goals, while governments have been forced to rethink ...