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 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
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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
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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 ...
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 “...
Contested Citizenship in East Asia: Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization
1st Edition
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By Kyung-Sup Chang, Bryan Turner
October 14, 2024
Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism...
Solidarity in Individualized Societies: Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement
1st Edition
By Søren Juul
October 14, 2024
In today’s individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in ...