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.
Family, Culture, and Self in the Development of Eating Disorders
1st Edition
By Susan Haworth-Hoeppner
December 10, 2019
This book takes a unique approach to the examination of the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa (and bulimia). White, middle-class, heterosexual women share their insights into the emergence of their illnesses through detailed interviews that consider perceptions of the role of family, the influence ...
New Immigration Destinations: Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas
1st Edition
By Ruth McAreavey
December 10, 2019
Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. New Immigration Destinations examines structural forces along with individual strategies and ...
Origins of Inequality in Human Societies
1st Edition
By Bernd Baldus
December 10, 2019
Since the beginning of social life human societies have faced the problem how to distribute the results of collaborative activities among the participants. The solutions they found ranged from egalitarian to unequal but caused more dissension and conflict than just about any other social structure ...
Popular Music and Retro Culture in the Digital Era
1st Edition
By Jean Hogarty
December 10, 2019
This book explores the trend of retro and nostalgia within contemporary popular music culture. Using empirical evidence obtained from a case study of fans’ engagement with older music, the book argues that retro culture is the result of an inseparable mix of cultural and technological changes, ...
Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century: In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation
1st Edition
By Donald G. Reid
December 10, 2019
The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing separation between the rich and poor. The aim of this book is to examine the social constructions that have led to these breakdowns, and provide potential solutions that are based on a fundamental change in ...
The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts
1st Edition
By Phoebe V. Moore
December 10, 2019
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics? The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how, whether it be in insecure ‘gig’ work or office work, such ...
The Sociology of Postmarxism
1st Edition
By Richard Howson
December 10, 2019
Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense.Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the field of political sociology through a close reading and analysis of postmarxism and its relationship...
Transnational Social Policy: Social Welfare in a World on the Move
1st Edition
Edited
By Luann Good Gingrich, Stefan Köngeter
December 10, 2019
Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalization of economies, labour markets, education, social services, and care. The contributions of this book provide unique case examples on the interplay of ...
Occupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility
1st Edition
By Samuel Burgum
October 07, 2019
Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8? Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in London –...
Sociology of Economic Innovation
1st Edition
By Francesco Ramella
September 05, 2019
This book offers a sociological overview of the theories and research on economic innovation. Over the past few decades, the economics of innovation has given rise to a lively flow of studies, and innovation studies continues to develop as an interdisciplinary field of research. Sociology in ...
Shared Housing, Shared Lives: Everyday Experiences Across the Lifecourse
1st Edition
By Sue Heath, Katherine Davies, Gemma Edwards, Rachael Scicluna
May 21, 2019
With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives. Focusing on sharers in a...
Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe
1st Edition
By Giovanni Picker
May 14, 2019
Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted after World War II. Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania...