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.
The Reflexive Initiative: On the Grounds and Prospects of Analytic Theorizing
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanley Raffel, Barry Sandywell
December 12, 2019
The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human sciences and philosophical perspectives. ...
The Social Organization of Disease: Emotions and Civic Action
1st Edition
By Jochen Kleres
December 12, 2019
Empirically, this book is a case-study analysis of dissolution processes in German AIDS organizations. Indeed, why is it that civic organizers start out with a commitment to a cause but end up dissolving their organization? This question is exactly what Kleres seeks to tackle within The Social ...
The Social after Gabriel Tarde: Debates and Assessments
2nd Edition
Edited
By Matei Candea
December 12, 2019
Gabriel Tarde was a highly influential figure in 19th century French sociology: a prolific and evocative writer whose understanding of the social differed radically from that of his younger opponent Emile Durkheim. Whereas Durkheimian sociology went on to become the core of the social scientific ...
The Synchronization of National Policies: Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns
1st Edition
By Pertti Alasuutari
December 12, 2019
The Synchronization of National Policies shows how it is possible that there is remarkable uniformity in the policies that the nation-states adopt, although there is no world government. Mainstream research attributes such global governance to the influence of leading countries, to functional ...
Theorizing Digital Divides
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert
December 12, 2019
Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world and is now reproduced in the digital sphere. Such inequalities have been described in multiple traditions of social thought and theoretical approaches....
Theorizing Social Memories: Concepts and Contexts
1st Edition
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By Gerd Sebald, Jatin Wagle
December 12, 2019
Public debates over the last two decades about social memories, about how as societies we remember, make sense of, and even imagine and invent, our collective pasts suggest that grand narratives have been abandoned for numerous little stories that contest the unified visions of the past. But, while...
Transnational Students and Mobility: Lived Experiences of Migration
1st Edition
By Hannah Soong
December 12, 2019
As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginaries, experiences and subjectivities. In Transnational Students and Mobility, Hannah Soong portrays the vexed nexus of education and migration as a site...
Understanding Aging and Diversity: Theories and Concepts
1st Edition
By Patricia Kolb
December 12, 2019
The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know. The changes will result in ...
Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art
1st Edition
By John Clammer
December 12, 2019
The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself. Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual ...
Work-Family Dynamics: Competing Logics of Regulation, Economy and Morals
1st Edition
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By Berit Brandth, Sigtona Halrynjo, Elin Kvande
December 12, 2019
Work-life integration is an increasingly hot topic in the media, social research, governments and in people’s everyday lives. This volume offers a new type of lens for understanding work-family reconciliation by studying how work-family dynamics are shaped, squeezed and developed between consistent...
Challenging Identities: European Horizons
1st Edition
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By Peter Madsen
December 10, 2019
Identity is a keyword in a number of academic fields as well as in public debate and in politics. During the last decades, references to identity have proliferated, yet there is no simple definition available that corresponds to the use of the notion in all contexts. The significance of the notion ...
Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China: Insights from Social Science Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Zai Liang, Steven F. Messner, Youqin Huang, Cheng Chen
December 10, 2019
Since the late 1970s, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of urbanization. In 1978, only 17.8% of the population resided in urban areas, but by 2013 the level of urbanization had reached 53.8%. During the same period, China also enjoyed spectacular economic growth. China had become the ...