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 International Recording Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Marshall
November 10, 2014
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and ...
Touring Poverty
1st Edition
By Bianca Freire-Medeiros
November 10, 2014
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...
Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner
November 06, 2014
In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical ...
Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty
September 11, 2014
The construction industry as a workplace is commonly seen as problematic for a number of reasons, including its worrying health and safety record, the instability of its workforce, and the poorly regulated nature of the sector. It is surprising therefore, that the sector and its working practices ...
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem
September 11, 2014
This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the ...
Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Shove, Nicola Spurling
September 11, 2014
Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual ...
Youth, Arts, and Education: Reassembling Subjectivity through Affect
1st Edition
By Anna Hickey-Moody
September 11, 2014
How are the arts important in young people’s lives? Youth, Arts and Education offers a groundbreaking theory of arts education. Anna Hickey-Moody explores how the arts are ways of belonging, resisting, being governed and being heard. Through examples from the United Kingdom and Australia, Anna ...
Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew E. Scharlach, Kazumi Hoshino
July 03, 2014
Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context examines two emerging trends facing countries throughout the world: population aging and population diversity. It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of these timely issues by examining their implications for healthy aging, a topic of increasing ...
Socioeconomic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis: Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Schuerkens
July 03, 2014
This book originates from a comparative research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on socioeconomic outcomes of the global financial crisis in all major world regions during...
The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man: Coping with Stigma
1st Edition
By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli
July 03, 2014
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men, ...
The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies: A Theory of Sociotechnical Change
1st Edition
By Ulrich Dolata
July 03, 2014
Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change. ...
Cultural Capital, Identity, and Social Mobility: The Life Course of Working-Class University Graduates
1st Edition
By Mick Matthys
June 19, 2014
This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a working-class background to a middle-class milieu results in loyalty conflicts and communication barriers. The lack of social and cultural capital and the ...