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.
Retail and the Artifice of Social Change
1st Edition
By Steven Miles
December 12, 2019
In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual guises it has come to reframe our relationship with the social world. Retail has become increasingly influential in homogenising the urban experience....
Shared Experiences of Mass Shootings: A Comparative Perspective on the Aftermath
1st Edition
By Johanna Nurmi
December 12, 2019
Mass violence and terrorism are a salient phenomenon in the late modern society, showing no sign of decline. Proactive results from the long, ongoing debate of how to address these issues are therefore increasingly necessary – not just in the context of prevention, but also in the context of the ...
Social Class and Transnational Human Capital: How Middle and Upper Class Parents Prepare Their Children for Globalization
1st Edition
By Jürgen Gerhards, Hans Silke, Sören Carlson
December 12, 2019
Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become important for societies and people’s social positions. Previous research on social inequality, however, has dominantly focused on the reproduction of class...
Social Generativity: A Relational Paradigm for Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Mauro Magatti
December 12, 2019
The 2008 economic crisis called into question the sustainability of the individualistic consumer society. However, for better or for worse, this long-term crisis represents an opportunity for the creation of a new model of growth to reform capitalism, structurally as well as culturally.As a ...
Social Movements in Violently Divided Societies: Constructing Conflict and Peacebuilding
1st Edition
By John Nagle
December 12, 2019
Violently divided societies present major challenges to institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation. Yet such societies also contain groups that refuse to be confined within separate forms of ethnic community and instead ...
Social Networks and Music Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Nick Crossley, Siobhan McAndrew, Paul Widdop
December 12, 2019
Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core concepts and tools of social network analysis. The collection showcases the use of these tools by ...
Stigma and the Shaping of the Pornography Industry
1st Edition
By Georgina Voss
December 12, 2019
The idea of ‘pornography’ is often employed to invoke titillation, anger, and disgust. Stigma and the Shaping of the Pornography Industry explores the effects that this stigmatized identity has on the pornography industry itself. From the video era to the emergence of the internet, to trade shows, ...
Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
December 12, 2019
In today’s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on...
The Decent Society: Planning for Social Quality
1st Edition
By Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace, Roger Sapsford
December 12, 2019
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. ...
The Great Transformation: History for a Techno-Human Future
1st Edition
By Judith Bessant
December 12, 2019
While artificial intelligence (AI), robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture, and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the ‘great transformation’ uses history and ...
The Live Art of Sociology
1st Edition
By Cath Lambert
December 12, 2019
The Live Art of Sociology attends to the importance of ‘the live’ in contemporary social and political life. Taking existing work in live sociology as a starting point, this book considers some of its aspirations through unique empirical investigations. Queer and feminist theory and methods are ...
The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity: National Contexts, Global Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Dawson
December 12, 2019
The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity engages with one of the most characteristic features of modern society. An increasingly prominent and potentially contentious phenomenon, religious diversity is intimately associated with contemporary issues such as migration, human rights, social ...