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.
Innovation in Socio-Cultural Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Frane Adam, Hans Westlund
May 21, 2015
Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved. Lack of innovation is not necessarily ...
Life Course Perspectives on Military Service
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London
May 21, 2015
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don’t know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives. It demonstrates that the military, like colleges and ...
Sociology of the Visual Sphere
1st Edition
Edited
By Regev Nathansohn, Dennis Zuev
May 21, 2015
This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing...
The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World
1st Edition
By Christopher S. Swader
May 21, 2015
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers...
The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism: Specters of Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Tomas Marttila
May 21, 2015
This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative discourse analysis, the book describes the ...
Seeing Religion: Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Roman Williams
May 06, 2015
The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from ...
People and Societies: Rom Harré and Designing the Social Sciences
1st Edition
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By Luk van Langenhove
April 23, 2015
Rom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social ...
Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought
1st Edition
By Mark Featherstone
April 23, 2015
In the 1850s the social and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville spoke of ‘a virus of a new and unknown kind’ to explain the inexplicable failure of the French Revolution. This book uses Tocqueville’s idea of the virus to explore the fatal relationship between the concepts of utopia and ...
Creation and Returns of Social Capital
1st Edition
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By Henk Flap, Beate Völker
April 09, 2015
The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of ...
Virtual Globalization: Virtual Spaces/Tourist Spaces
1st Edition
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By David Holmes
December 22, 2014
This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose ...
The International Recording Industries
1st Edition
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By Lee Marshall
November 10, 2014
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and ...
Touring Poverty
1st Edition
By Bianca Freire-Medeiros
November 10, 2014
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...