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 New Social Contract Between Generations: Profiguration
1st Edition
By Fidel Molina-Luque
May 01, 2025
The cornerstone of this book is the innovative concept of profiguration, a term coined by Fidel Molina-Luque to encapsulate the essential agreement and recognition required between generations in contemporary society. Profiguration emphasises the intrinsic value of interdependence across all age ...
Avoiding Retirement in Chile: Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context
1st Edition
By Ignacio Cabib
April 29, 2025
Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories and relying on primary longitudinal qualitative data (life- story interviews with 90 older workers) and primary longitudinal quantitative data (life-course calendar surveys among 802 older individuals), Avoiding Retirement in Chile ...
A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong
1st Edition
By Pauwke Berkers, Yosha Wijngaarden
April 21, 2025
A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology and the sociologies of interactions and emotions, this book develops the first comprehensive sociology of awkwardness. It provides an understanding of ...
The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile
1st Edition
By Modesto Gayo, María Luisa Méndez
March 13, 2025
This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century. Contrary to perceptions that privileged individuals exist according to little more than market and economic logics, the book provides evidence that they are by ...
Class and Time-Based Subjective Inequality: Wealth Forecast
1st Edition
By Nicolas Duvoux
March 11, 2025
Challenging the inference in social science that taking subjectivity into account somehow conflicts with approaches that emphasize the reality of the material conditions of existence, this book shows how subjective perceptions of one’s future can help to capture class and inequality, considering ...
Legacies of the Surveillance State: Communities Living in the Shadows
1st Edition
By Cliodhna Pierce
February 19, 2025
In an age of invasive technology and mass data collection, how can we understand the true impact of surveillance on our lives and communities? Legacies of the Surveillance State offers a chilling exploration of two historical surveillance societies: East Germany and Northern Ireland during the ...
Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment
1st Edition
Edited
By Annalisa Murgia
February 04, 2025
This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human ...
Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison, Akio Tanabe
January 28, 2025
Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature. Racism is not a uniquely ...
Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery
1st Edition
By Erkan Ali
December 18, 2024
Drawing on debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book examines what it means to offer a genuine sociological critique of religious faith, illiberalism and anti-secularism from a macro perspective. Arguing that as a discipline concerned with real issues in the social world, sociology ...
Deysi, Gender, and Violence: Making a Life Under Democracy and Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Ana S.Q. Liberato
December 03, 2024
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic. Deysi’s life narrative is a microhistory that sheds light on the intersection of gender, ...
Dynamics of Uncertainty, Unrest and Fragility in Europe: In the Shadow of the Ukraine and Migration Crises
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen
December 02, 2024
This book examines some of the most pressing issues affecting contemporary societies in Europe in the 2020s, namely uncertainty, unrest and the fragility of individuals and groups. Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen and their contributors analyse a selection of challenges affecting the present and near ...
Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations: Visions of Italy and the Italians in England and Britain from the Renaissance to the Present Day
1st Edition
By Christopher Thorpe
November 28, 2024
This book provides a historical cultural sociological analysis of cultural representations of Italy in England and later Britain, from the period of the Italian Renaissance to the present day. Rooted in a critical account of orthodox social scientific approaches to thinking and theorising cultural ...