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.
Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies
1st Edition
By Denisa Butnaru
November 28, 2024
This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices. Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal “deviance” and “...
Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe: The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology
1st Edition
By Hynek Jeřábek
November 28, 2024
This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European postwar sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld’s inventions and his methodological, organisational, and ...
The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion
1st Edition
By Abílio Almeida
November 19, 2024
The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms. It also argues that ...
Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Wanka, Tabea Freutel-Funke, Sabine Andresen, Frank Oswald
November 14, 2024
When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too young, or too old, to do something – and what age is the right one? Age, thereby, is a central social category for Western societies: more than gender, ...
The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Sophia Aguirre, Antonio Argandoña
November 08, 2024
This book explores the role of "home" in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and temporary workers. For displaced people, home is something lost, longed for and sometimes found anew. It is a community of ...
Cultural Values, Institutions, and Trust
1st Edition
By Seung Hyun Kim, Sangmook Kim
October 09, 2024
Using experimental surveys as a primary source, Kim and Kim compare a wide range of developed countries to assess the determinants of generalized social trust. With data from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States, Kim and Kim present a ...
Protest in Late Modern Societies: Dynamics, Forms, Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Banaś, Ruslan Saduov
October 09, 2024
This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic. Through their analyses, the authors undertake to envision the possible evolution of the forms of contestation in the further ...
The Experience and Fear of Violence in the Public Realm: Hegemonic Ideology and Individual Behaviour
1st Edition
By Charlotte Fabiansson
October 09, 2024
This book explores violent and discriminatory values and beliefs and their interconnectedness between societal echelons. Violence has a foundation and a context. It comes from somewhere and is directed at someone or something, and it has an ambience established through generations of social, ...
Class, Trauma, Identity: Psychosocial Encounters
1st Edition
By Giorgos Bithymitris
October 08, 2024
This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of classed traumas in late modernity. The primary anchoring question is whether and how class becomes a condition of possibility for coping with traumas. What does it mean to experience deindustrialization, crises, or domestic violence from...
Social Cohesion in European Societies: Conceptualising and Assessing Togetherness
1st Edition
By Bujar Aruqaj
October 08, 2024
This book explains the concept of social cohesion in the context of a comparative sociological study. It proposes an innovative approach to the measurement of social cohesion, considering as constitutive elements social trust, institutional trust, and societies’ degree of openness. Aruqaj observes ...
Virtually Lost: Young Americans in the Digital Technocracy
1st Edition
By Garry Robson
October 08, 2024
This book examines the connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives; the structure, character, and motivations of the corporate system ‘behind’ the screen; and the possibility that the digital technostructure may come ...
Will Schooling Ever Change?: School Culture, Distance Learning and the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
By Piotr Mikiewicz, Marta Jurczak-Morris
October 08, 2024
This book is an insightful meta-narrative about schooling which explores the global natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on school culture. The proposed book discusses how the abrupt and somewhat forced digital transformation of schooling on a global scale (caused by...