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.
Social Protection Programmes: Narratives of Nigerian Women and Anti-Trafficking Practitioners in Italy
1st Edition
By Michela Semprebon
October 04, 2024
This book deals with social protection programmes targeted to people trafficked for the scope of sexual exploitation. It provides empirical evidence on the N.A.Ve programme, in the northeastern Italian Veneto Region, and its evolution. It elaborates on the programme by narrating the subjective ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4: Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
October 01, 2024
This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people’s past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.Previous volumes in the series have examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class structures in ...
BrAsian Family Practices and Reflexivity: Behind the Boxing Ropes
1st Edition
By Izram Chaudry
September 24, 2024
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger ...
Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation
1st Edition
By Thomas Allmer
September 09, 2024
This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour. While research and teaching become more virtual and digital at universities, academic labour is becoming more and more casualised and temporary. This book aims to analyse and ...
Governing Families: Problematising Technologies in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice
1st Edition
By Rosalind Edwards, Pamela Ugwudike
August 26, 2024
This book provides a focused discussion of how families are governed through technologies. It shows how states attempt to influence, shape and govern families as both the source of and solution to a range of social problems including crime. The book critically reviews family governance in ...
Religion, Life, and Death: Untangling Fears and the Search for Coherence
1st Edition
By Pamela Leong
August 26, 2024
Based on a content analysis of writing assignments from a class on death and dying, this book focuses on the manner in which college students use religion to make sense of death and the dying process. Drawing on research spanning five years, the author considers the attitudes, concerns, and ...
Towards a Sociology of Selfies: The Filtered Face
1st Edition
By Maria-Carolina Cambre, Christine Lavrence
August 26, 2024
This book examines selfies as a relational and processual networked social practice, performed between people within digital contexts and that involve online/offline intersections and tensions. It offers an analysis of selfies through a rich and interdisciplinary framework, that explores the ...
The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse: Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing
1st Edition
By Ayan-Yue Gupta
August 02, 2024
This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse. It involves combining pragmatist perspectives on language with computational sociolinguistics and large language models (LLMs). The first half discusses traditional critical approaches to investigating ...
A Sociological Perspective on Blood Plasma Donation During the Pandemic: Convalescent Gifts and Liminality
1st Edition
By Jae-Mahn Shim, Seung-Hyun Baek
July 31, 2024
Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book reveals what plasma donation means for their efforts to reassemble their lives from being liminal moments to livable experiences, through...
What is the Sociology of Philosophy?: Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy
1st Edition
By Carl-Göran Heidegren, Henrik Lundberg
July 29, 2024
This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy. After...
Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City
1st Edition
Edited
By Kit Ying Lye, Terence Heng
June 12, 2024
What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective on how individuals and collectives “do” death and interact with the dead. Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion ...
Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a Bird
1st Edition
Edited
By Aslı Vatansever, Aysuda Kölemen
May 27, 2024
With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questions the predominant view on academic freedom and pleads for a holistic approach. While academic freedom has been a top agenda point for the global ...