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 Precarious Generation: A Political Economy of Young People
1st Edition
By Judith Bessant, Rys Farthing, Rob Watts
May 09, 2018
This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first ...
God, Politics, Economy: Social Theory and the Paradoxes of Religion
1st Edition
By Bulent Diken
April 25, 2018
The book intervenes into the contemporary debate on religion, politics, and economy, focusing on the field of formation which emerges as these seemingly autonomous spheres encounter one another. Empirically, it concentrates on examples from literature, theatre, and cinema as well as a case study ...
Sharing Lives: Adult Children and Parents
1st Edition
By Marc Szydlik
April 25, 2018
Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference point for studies on the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong ...
Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
By Daniel Muriel, Garry Crawford
March 19, 2018
Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life. Video games are becoming an increasingly ...
Human Sciences and Human Interests: Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences
1st Edition
By Mikael Klintman
March 09, 2018
Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what ...
Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim
1st Edition
By Ozlem Goner
January 08, 2018
This book examines the ways in which states and nations are constructed and legitimated through defining and managing outsiders. Focusing on Turkey and the municipality of Dersim – a region that has historically combined different outsider identities, including Armenian, Kurdish, and Alevi ...
European Citizenship and Social Integration in the European Union
1st Edition
By Jürgen Gerhards, Holger Lengfeld
January 03, 2018
Since 2008, the European Union has been affected by one of the most severe crises in the history of Europe. This book builds on the work of Jürgen Habermas to answer the key question: is Europe strong enough to overcome the recent crisis? Arguing that recovery can only take place if the citizens of...
Pragmatic Humanism: On the Nature and Value of Sociological Knowledge
1st Edition
By Marcus Morgan
January 03, 2018
Is sociology best understood as simply chipping away at our ignorance about society, or does it have broader roles and responsibilities? If so, to what—or perhaps to whom—are these responsibilities? Installing humanity as its epistemological and normative start and endpoint, this book shows how ...
Understanding Southern Social Movements
1st Edition
Edited
By Simin Fadaee
January 03, 2018
Southern social movements have played an important role in shaping world history and politics. Nevertheless, scholarly literature on movements of the global South remains limited and restricted to testing the social movement theory which was developed in the North. This Northern-centric approach ...
American Smuggling as White Collar Crime
1st Edition
By Lawrence Karson
June 30, 2017
When Edwin Sutherland introduced the concept of white-collar crime, he referred to the respectable businessmen of his day who had, in the course of their occupations, violated the law whenever it was advantageous to do so. Yet since the founding of the American Republic, numerous otherwise ...
International Migration and Ethnic Relations: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Magnus Dahlstedt, Anders Neergaard
June 07, 2017
Each day, in so many aspects of daily life, we are reminded of the significance of migration and ethnicity. This book is a critical contribution to the understanding of the phenomena of migration and ethnicity, from a Swedish vantage point looking outwards towards a European context. It presents ...
Emotion and Social Structures: The Affective Foundations of Social Order
1st Edition
By Christian von Scheve
May 25, 2017
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in ...