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.
Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities
1st Edition
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By Lars Meier
December 20, 2016
The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants—managers and scientists, for example—are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in specific...
Punk Rock and the Politics of Place: Building a Better Tomorrow
1st Edition
By Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl
December 20, 2016
This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "sound" or a "style" as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the ...
Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches: Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy
1st Edition
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By Maarten Keune, Amparo Serrano
December 08, 2016
In recent years, the concept of flexicurity has come to occupy a central place in political and academic debates regarding employment and social policy. It fosters a view in which the need for continuously increasing flexibility is the basic assumption, and the understanding of security ...
From Globalization to World Society: Neo-Institutional and Systems-Theoretical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Boris Holzer, Fatima Kastner, Tobias Werron
December 08, 2016
Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems analysis - instead have focused on ...
Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America: Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality
1st Edition
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By Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, Merlin Schaeffer
October 10, 2016
Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic ...
Gender Roles in Ireland: Three Decades of Attitude Change
1st Edition
By Margret Fine-Davis
August 03, 2016
Gender Roles in Ireland: three decades of attitude change documents changing attitudes toward the role of women in Ireland from 1975 to 2005, a key period of social change in this society. The book presents replicated measures from four separate surveys carried out over three decades. These cover a...
Opening the Black Box: The Work of Watching
1st Edition
By Gavin Smith
May 31, 2016
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are a prominent, if increasingly familiar, feature of urbanism. They symbolize the faith that spatial authorities place in technical interventions for the treatment of social problems. CCTV was principally introduced to sterilize municipalities, to govern ...
Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States
1st Edition
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By Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton
March 03, 2016
As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other ...
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects
1st Edition
By Peter J. Hutchings
January 20, 2016
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth ...
Irish Insanity: 1800–2000
1st Edition
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By Damien Brennan
December 07, 2015
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and ...
Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology: Putting the “Institution” Back in Institutional Analysis
1st Edition
By Seth Abrutyn
December 07, 2015
There may not be a concept so central to sociology, yet so vaguely defined in its contemporary usages, than institution. In Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology, Abrutyn takes an in-depth look at what institutions are by returning to some of the insights of classical theorists like Max Weber ...
Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe: Understanding When Change Happens
1st Edition
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By Peter Utting, Mario Pianta, Anne Ellersiek
November 03, 2015
Civil society activism around issues of global justice has proliferated in Europe during the past two decades. Has such contestation and advocacy made a difference? This book examines whether and how the organizations, networks and campaigns involved have attained their policy objectives in the ...