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.
Capitalisms and Democracies: Can Growth and Equality be Reconciled?
1st Edition
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By Carlo Trigilia
May 27, 2024
This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions. It highlights the differences in growth and inequalities between different countries, pointing ...
Class Boundaries in Europe: The Bourdieusian Approach in Perspective
1st Edition
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By Cédric Hugrée, Étienne Penissat, Alexis Spire, Johs. Hjellbrekke
May 27, 2024
Drawing inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu’s social space theory, this book provides an unprecedent overview of class relations, covering topics such as class polarisation, cultural reproduction, political orientations, and globalisation. The book applies Bourdieusian social space approach to show ...
Covid-19 Responses of Local Communities around the World: Exploring Trust in the Context of Risk and Fear
1st Edition
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By Khun Eng Kuah, Gilles Guiheux, Francis K.G. Lim
May 27, 2024
Presenting a wide range of international case studies, the contributors to this book study the impact of Covid-19 on the risks faced by communities around the globe. Examining cases from the Americas, Europe and Asia – including Mexico, Brazil, China, India, France, and Belgium – Kuah, Guiheux, Lim...
Framing Social Theory: Reassembling the Lexicon of Contemporary Social Sciences
1st Edition
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By Paola Rebughini, Enzo Colombo
May 27, 2024
This book proposes a reconstruction of contemporary social theory, focusing on thematic issues rather than on authors or schools of thought. In so doing, it endeavours to bridge epistemological approaches and locate critical claims shared by the main trajectories and notions of sociological ...
Happiness and Domestic Life: The Influence of the Home on Subjective and Social Well-being
1st Edition
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By Maria Teresa Russo, Antonio Argandoña, Richard Peatfield
May 27, 2024
This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the context of current changes. The theme of happiness and well-being is framed ...
Recognising Adoptee Relationships
1st Edition
By Christine A. Lewis
May 27, 2024
With a triadic perspective, this autoethnographic narrative explores the temporal, situated nature of interactions between the author as an adoptee with her adult adopted children as well as those between herself and her birth father and mother. The epiphanic adoptive family narratives that are ...
Remaking Culture and Music Spaces: Affects, Infrastructures, Futures
1st Edition
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By Ian Woodward, Jo Haynes, Pauwke Berkers, Aileen Dillane, Karolina Golemo
May 27, 2024
This collection analyses the remaking of culture and music spaces during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Its central focus is how cultural producers negotiated radically disrupted and uncertain conditions by creating, designing, and curating new objects and events, and through making alternative ...
Schools, Space and Culinary Capital
1st Edition
By Gurpinder Singh Lalli
May 27, 2024
This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools ...
Space, Mobility, and Crisis in Mega-Event Organisation: Tokyo Olympics 2020's Atmospheric Irradiations
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
May 27, 2024
This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face. Taking the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a case study, Tzanelli explores mega-event crisis and risk management ...
The Age-friendly Lens
1st Edition
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By Christie M. Gardiner, Eileen O’Brien Webb
May 27, 2024
This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism. Drawing from...
A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict
1st Edition
By Jeroen Bruggeman
March 13, 2024
Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab experiments, ...
How to Think Better About Social Justice: Why Good Sociology Matters
1st Edition
By Bradley Campbell
February 06, 2024
Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often draw heavily from claims that are highly contested, unsupported by the evidence, or outright false. This book shows why learning to think sociologically ...