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.
Ageing in Contexts of Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Ute Karl, Sandra Torres
December 12, 2019
Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scientists around the world, and posing numerous challenges for policy makers and practitioners whose goal is to formulate and design high-quality and user-friendly policies and ...
Alienation and Affect
1st Edition
By Warren TenHouten
December 12, 2019
Alienation has objective, social-structural determinants, yet is experienced subjectively as a psychological state involving both emotion and cognition. Part I considers conceptualizations of alienation and affect in historical context, emphasizing Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Simmel, and Weber. Part II ...
Bourdieusian Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Adkins, Caragh Brosnan, Steven Threadgold
December 12, 2019
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. ...
Childhood, Literature and Science: Fragile Subjects
1st Edition
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By Jutta Ahlbeck, Päivi Lappalainen, Kati Launis, Kirsi Tuohela
December 12, 2019
How do we understand, imagine and remember childhood? In what ways do cultural representations and scientific discourses meet in their ways of portraying children?Childhood, Literature and Science aims to answer these questions by tracing how images of childhood(s) and children in Western modernity...
Class in the New Millennium: The Structure, Homologies and Experience of the British Social Space
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
December 12, 2019
Class in the New Millennium paints a fresh and comprehensive picture of social class in Britain today. Anchored in a broad repertoire of methods and pursuing a distinctive theoretical agenda, it not only painstakingly maps the structure, transformation and effects of the UK’s key fault lines but ...
Cool Nations: Media and the Social Imaginary of the Branded Country
1st Edition
By Katja Valaskivi
December 12, 2019
Nation branding is the most recent feature of imagined nation-making in the history of nations. Facing global competition, national decision-makers aim to distinguish their countries from others by means of branding. Quite a few nations have considered the term ‘cool’ suitable for describing some ...
Digital Music Distribution: The Sociology of Online Music Streams
1st Edition
By Hendrik Storstein Spilker
December 12, 2019
The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a broader and richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of ...
Dynamics of National Identity: Media and Societal Factors of What We Are
1st Edition
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By Jürgen Grimm, Leonie Huddy, Peter Schmidt, Josef Seethaler
December 12, 2019
Globalization, immigration and economic crisis challenge the conceptions of nations, trans-national institutions and post-ethnic societies which are central topics in social sciences' discourses. This book examines in an interdisciplinary and international comparative way structures of national ...
Habermas and Social Research: Between Theory and Method
1st Edition
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By Mark Murphy
December 12, 2019
One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. He has inspired researchers in a range of disciplines with his multidimensional social theory, however an overview of his...
Helicopter Parenting and Boomerang Children: How Parents Support and Relate to Their Student and Co-Resident Graduate Children
1st Edition
By Anne West, Jane Lewis
December 12, 2019
Drawing an unfavourable contrast between the position of students and graduates with that of their baby boomer parents has become a staple for media comment. Indeed, student indebtedness and difficulties in finding graduate jobs and housing typically contrasts markedly with their parents’ ...
Homeownership, Renting and Society: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Sebastian Kohl
December 12, 2019
On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany. Homeownership, Renting and Society presents new evidence showing that this homeownership gap already existed between American and German cities around ...
Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By June Edmunds
December 12, 2019
Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed. The portrayal of human rights, especially European, as evidence of cosmopolitanism in practice is misguided. Cosmopolitan theorists point to the rise of claims-making to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) among Europe’s ...