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Routledge Advances in Sociology

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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.

305 Series Titles


Bottom Set Citizen Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving

Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving

1st Edition

By Paula Ambrossi
July 31, 2025

While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies ...

Education Strategy in a Changing Society Personalised, Smarter, Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century

Education Strategy in a Changing Society: Personalised, Smarter, Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century

1st Edition

By Martin Slattery
July 31, 2025

Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the 21st century. It examines the post-pandemic paradigm shift in educational practice in countries around the world and presents international case studies of emerging future ...

Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany

Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany

1st Edition

By Susanne Berliner
July 31, 2025

This book is an ethnographic inquiry into the socio-ecological relationalities in an intercultural community garden in Germany, created in 2015 as a Refugees Welcome project. It explores this quietly political space of civic everyday which seeks to foster care for both people and planet. In three ...

Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall German Unification and Transformation Research

Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall: German Unification and Transformation Research

1st Edition

Edited By Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt
July 30, 2025

This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and ...

Sociology of Hope A New Theory

Sociology of Hope: A New Theory

1st Edition

By Adrian Scribano
July 01, 2025

This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the “state of the art” of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women, and to the reconstruction of the ...

Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Theory and Practice

Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Lukas Slothuus, Dave Ashby, Catherine Duxbury
June 27, 2025

This book explores interdisciplinary university teaching in both theory and practice, drawing on the experience and expertise of educators from across the social sciences and humanities. Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book ...

Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism

Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism

1st Edition

By Michael A. Long, Andrew S. Fullerton, Paul B. Stretesky
May 27, 2025

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post‑World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism – the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual ...

A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars

1st Edition

By Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen, Josetxo Beriain
May 06, 2025

This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and ...

Citizenship in Crisis in Athens Migration, Media and Identity

Citizenship in Crisis in Athens: Migration, Media and Identity

1st Edition

By Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi
May 06, 2025

Citizenship in Crisis in Athens explores the construction of citizen identity through embodied and mediated encounters with noncitizen migrants in the spatio-temporality of compounded crises. Widely recognised as central to contemporary social and political life, the dynamics of citizenship are ...

Economic Sociology in Europe Recent Trends and Developments

Economic Sociology in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel, Alberto Veira-Ramos
May 06, 2025

This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe. Covering a range of case studies from different European countries and regions, the contributions analyse the effects of recent challenges...

Migration, Mobility and Education Examining the Role of Family and Schooling

Migration, Mobility and Education: Examining the Role of Family and Schooling

1st Edition

By Kate Hoskins, Bernard Barker
May 06, 2025

This book examines the role of family and schooling through an interpretive, qualitative, intergenerational case study. It examines the formation of academic and vocational aspirations by second generation (G2) migrant students from diverse international backgrounds. Looking at the influence of ...

Southern Theories Contemporary and Future Challenges

Southern Theories: Contemporary and Future Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Oliver Mutanga, Tendayi Marovah
May 06, 2025

This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, ...

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