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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...