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.
Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe: The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology
1st Edition
By Hynek Jeřábek
January 30, 2026
This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European postwar sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld’s inventions and his methodological, organisational, and ...
Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Wanka, Tabea Freutel-Funke, Sabine Andresen, Frank Oswald
January 30, 2026
When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too young, or too old, to do something – and what age is the right one? Age, thereby, is a central social category for Western societies: more than gender, ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4: Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
January 30, 2026
This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people’s past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.Previous volumes in the series have examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class structures in ...
The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion
1st Edition
By Abílio Almeida
January 30, 2026
The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms. It also argues that ...
The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Sophia Aguirre, Antonio Argandoña
January 30, 2026
This book explores the role of "home" in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and temporary workers. For displaced people, home is something lost, longed for and sometimes found anew. It is a community of ...
BrAsian Family Practices and Reflexivity: Behind the Boxing Ropes
1st Edition
By Izram Chaudry
November 28, 2025
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger ...
Trawling Talent: How Elite Professional Service Firms Recruit University Graduates in Transitional China
1st Edition
By Ran Ren
November 07, 2025
Drawing from job advertisements, interviews with in-house recruiters, and participant observations, Ren offers an in-depth exploration of how elite professional service firms recruit graduates in China. This book opens the “black box” of graduate hiring processes from a demand-side perspective, ...
The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse: Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing
1st Edition
By Ayan-Yue Gupta
October 27, 2025
This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse. It involves combining pragmatist perspectives on language with computational sociolinguistics and large language models (LLMs). The first half discusses traditional critical approaches to investigating ...
What is the Sociology of Philosophy?: Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy
1st Edition
By Carl-Göran Heidegren, Henrik Lundberg
October 27, 2025
This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy. After...
Towards a Diagnosis of Our Times: A Sociological Approach to Global Trends
1st Edition
By Nikolai Genov
September 30, 2025
This monograph offers a critical diagnosis of the current epoch marked by globalization, de-globalization and re-globalization. Arguing that the concept of society gives way to that of globalization as an explanatory core, the author shows how constructivist ideas open the way to four new ...
A Sociological Perspective on Blood Plasma Donation During the Pandemic: Convalescent Gifts and Liminality
1st Edition
By Jae-Mahn Shim, Seung-Hyun Baek
September 29, 2025
Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book reveals what plasma donation means for their efforts to reassemble their lives from being liminal moments to livable experiences, through...
A Sociological Approach to Commodification: The Case of Transforming the Post-Socialist Society in Poland
1st Edition
By Marek Ziółkowski, Rafał Drozdowski, Mariusz Baranowski
August 30, 2025
This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945. Examining the case of Poland, this book also explores comparisons to other countries in the Eastern European region. It is the first book to capture long-term social ...