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.
Alevis in Europe: Voices of Migration, Culture and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Tözün Issa
May 07, 2019
The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past century, many of them have migrated from rural enclaves on the Anatolian plateau to the great cities of Istanbul and Ankara, and from there to the countries of the European Union. This ...
Liberalism 2.0 and the Rise of China: Global Crisis, Innovation and Urban Mobility
1st Edition
By David Tyfield
April 11, 2019
What can we do in this period of historic, global turbulence? Mainstream narratives have no plausible account of how to stop exacerbating the multiple, overlapping challenges; much less begin to address them meaningfully. The only thing everyone agrees is innovation will be needed. But what is ...
Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelvin Low, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
March 21, 2019
Urban landscapes are usually thought of first and foremost as engineered formations designed for functionality. It is quite clear, however, that cities and towns are sites of social structure, scenes of diversity, and hotbeds of transgressions. They are also sources of satisfying social ...
Gypsy Feminism: Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism
1st Edition
By Laura Corradi
February 05, 2019
Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. ...
Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality
1st Edition
By F.C. Simon
February 04, 2019
Meta-regulation presents itself as a progressive policy approach that can manage complexity and conflicting objectives better than traditional command and control regulation. It does this by ‘harnessing’ markets and enlisting a broad range of stakeholders to reach a more inclusive view of the ...
European Social Integration and the Roma: Questioning Neoliberal Governmentality
1st Edition
By Cerasela Voiculescu
October 16, 2018
In the field of political sociology and European studies, there has long been a discussion on transnational neoliberal development and ethnic groups’ self-governance. Notwithstanding, there has been limited exploration in relation to modes of knowledge production associated with neoliberal ...
On the Frontlines of the Welfare State: How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems
1st Edition
By Barry Goetz
September 27, 2018
Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities. Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agencies function as welfare ...
Sociology of Crisis: Visualising Urban Austerity
1st Edition
By Myrto Tsilimpounidi
September 18, 2018
The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European context, crisis is seen as a threat to the stability of the region, rather than a local or national concern. Post-2008, crisis is social and political, ...
Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Scimecca
September 04, 2018
This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective, tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century, which, when combined with their emphasis on rationality, led to the Enlightenment "science...
Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America
1st Edition
By Yuting Wang
August 23, 2018
Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigrants from diverse backgrounds negotiate multiple identities while seeking to become part of American...
The Meanings of Europe: Changes and Exchanges of a Contested Concept
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Wiesner, Meike Schmidt-Gleim
August 23, 2018
What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints ...
Algorithmic Cultures: Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Seyfert, Jonathan Roberge
August 14, 2018
This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and...