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.
Humanist Realism for Sociologists
1st Edition
By Terry Leahy
December 12, 2019
Recent critiques treat humanism as a mistaken value framework. Indeed, the concept of human nature is in fact essential for sociology, but is often being denied at the same time as it appears without acknowledgement.While classic authors can show us how to connect an ethics with a concept of human ...
Hybrid Media Culture: Sensing Place in a World of Flows
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Lindgren
December 12, 2019
The distinction between online and offline realities is becoming more and more difficult to sustain. As computer-mediated communication evolves and as interaction becomes more and more dependent on the Internet, social, cultural, and political aspects begin to get caught and entangled in the web of...
Interpersonal Violence: Differences and Connections
1st Edition
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By Marita Husso, Tuija Virkki, Marianne Notko, Helena Hirvonen, Jari Eilola
December 12, 2019
From early modernity to today, society has encountered various forms of interpersonal violence. Through exploration of particular areas within Europe and Russia to Africa, America and Asia, this collection presents both differences and connections among various forms of interpersonal violence in ...
Islamic Environmentalism: Activism in the United States and Great Britain
1st Edition
By Rosemary Hancock
December 12, 2019
Islamic Environmentalism examines Muslim involvement in environmentalism in the United States and Great Britain. The book focuses upon Muslim activists and Islamic organizations that approach environmentalism as a religious duty: offering environmental readings of Islamic scriptures, and ...
Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination: Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
December 12, 2019
Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and ...
New Directions in Elite Studies
1st Edition
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By Olav Korsnes, Johan Heilbron, Johs. Hjellbrekke, Felix Bühlmann, Mike Savage
December 12, 2019
Since the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research. New ...
Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives
1st Edition
By Teo Keipi, Matti Näsi, Atte Oksanen, Pekka Räsänen
December 12, 2019
Over the past few decades, various types of hate material have caused increasing concern. Today, the scope of hate is wider than ever, as easy and often-anonymous access to an enormous amount of online content has opened the Internet up to both use and abuse. By providing possibilities for ...
Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures: Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe
1st Edition
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By Yaron Matras, Daniele Leggio
December 12, 2019
The book examines some of the dilemmas surrounding Europe’s open borders, migrations, and identities through the prism of the Roma – Europe’s most dispersed and socially marginalised population. The volume challenges some of the myths surrounding the Roma as a ‘problem population’, and places the ...
Political Inequality in an Age of Democracy: Cross-national Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Joshua Dubrow
December 12, 2019
The world has witnessed the creation of new democracies and the maturing of old ones. Yet, everywhere there is democracy, there is also political inequality. Voices of everyday folk struggle to be heard; often, they keep silent. Governments respond mostly to the influential and the already ...
Praxeological Political Analysis
1st Edition
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By Michael Jonas, Beate Littig
December 12, 2019
With the interest in practice theory and praxeology on the rise, praxeology can be considered an emerging new methodological as well as theoretical paradigm which successfully overcomes epistemological dichotomies of conventional approaches.The articles in this volume serve as starting points for ...
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools
1st Edition
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By Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally
December 12, 2019
How do educators and activists in today’s struggles for change use historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for political education? How do they create and engage with independent and often informal archives and debates? How do they ultimately connect this historical knowledge with ...
Religious Identity and Social Change: Explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world
1st Edition
By David Radford
December 12, 2019
Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the...