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 Institutionalization of Social Welfare: A Study of Medicalizing Management
1st Edition
By Mikael Holmqvist
March 21, 2013
Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears ...
Eastern European Immigrant Families
1st Edition
By Mihaela Robila
January 11, 2013
Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central to the discourse of migration to the US, the rapid growth of Eastern European immigrants has received insufficient attention. Robila ...
Club Cultures: Boundaries, Identities and Otherness
1st Edition
By Silvia Rief
September 25, 2012
This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices of clubbing help cultivate particular forms of reflexivity and modes of experience, and how these shape new devices for reconfiguring ...
Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity
1st Edition
By Richard Howson
September 18, 2012
In the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in the issues surrounding men and masculinity. Driven primarily by the second-wave feminist critique of the legitimacy or hegemony of masculine practice and culture, the hegemony of men in social spheres such as the family, law, and the ...
Love, Heterosexuality and Society
1st Edition
By Paul Johnson
September 18, 2012
Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality continues to be socially normative. Forging ...
Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Schuerkens
September 05, 2012
Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the ...
The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism
1st Edition
By Kristin Lawler
September 05, 2012
The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture, ...
Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
1st Edition
By Eduardo de la Fuente
September 05, 2012
In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, ...
Youth in Contemporary Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Leaman, Martha Wörsching
September 05, 2012
This book examines the everyday living conditions experienced and also shaped by young people in Europe. Contributors reflect on the current context of economic, social and political change affecting youth in the critical transition from dependence to independence. The volume provides the...
Formal and Informal Work: The Hidden Work Regime in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Lluis Flaquer, Per H. Jensen
July 27, 2012
Informal work – family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work – is a critical form of labor in today’s economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined. This volume develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of informal work and analyses systematically the relationship of formal...
Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art and Politics
1st Edition
By Dustin Kidd
July 27, 2012
How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the ...
Sociology, Religion and Grace
1st Edition
By Arpad Szakolczai
July 27, 2012
This book offers a sociological analysis of the Renaissance, focusing on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological, anthropological (gift-giving, Mauss; and sociability, Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness). Since the seminal work of Max...