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.
A Sociology of Institutional Banking Power: Elite Power at the Heart of British Banking
1st Edition
By Simon Arthur
February 04, 2027
This book represents the first book-length sociological interrogation of the Bank of England. With the Bank facing new challenges to its independence in recent years, it offers a timely consideration of the Bank’s position in the institutional landscape, the decisions that ran up to making it ...
Care as Collective Action: Care Ethics and Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Giacomo Lampredi
February 01, 2027
Bringing together care ethics and civil society scholarship, Care as Collective Action offers an original framework that understands collective action as a form of care and care itself as a form of civic engagement. It shows how citizens, civic associations, volunteer groups, social movements and ...
Digital Communities Post-Pandemic: Social(ly Distanced) Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda C. Roth Clark, Sophia E. Du Val, Alexis Paperman
January 18, 2027
This edited volume examines how communication within digital communities has shifted during and since the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020. It explores how pandemic lockdowns magnified the importance and impact of social media and other digital platforms in daily life, probing how pandemic communication ...
Privileged Migrants Across the Globe: Experiences of Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility
1st Edition
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By Diotima Chattoraj
November 24, 2026
Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse. The book delves into the rising mobility of various groups, including students, skilled ...
The Measured Life in the Digital Age: Optimisation by Numbers
1st Edition
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By Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa
November 24, 2026
This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures. Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project "The Measured Life", the book explores the social, cultural and psychological implications of digital ...
Public Procurement and the Welfare State: Public Purchasing Between Technical Tool and Socio-Political Practice
1st Edition
By E.K. Sarter
October 30, 2026
Public procurement, the purchasing of goods, works, and services by public bodies, is a crucial part of state activity. It ensures that vital services are available, infrastructure is constructed and maintained, and public bodies are supplied with the goods they need to operate. Public Procurement ...
Digital Media and the Daily Lives of China’s Senior Citizens
1st Edition
By Chen Guo
October 16, 2026
Guo provides a comprehensive outlook of how digital media is transforming the daily lives of senior citizens in China. The book explores the important role digital media play in senior citizens’ daily lives and the disparities of third agers’ digital well-being. It applies the concepts of digital ...
Invisible Seasides: A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia’s Past and Imagining its Afterlife
1st Edition
By Tony Blackshaw
October 16, 2026
Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, past and present, to bear on how we understand ...
The Pragmatics of Precarious Work: Security and Vulnerability in the Pandemic Economy
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Z. Jankowski
October 16, 2026
Drawing on data collected in London’s precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability. The analysis spans the full scope of precarious working: procedures of job searching and ...
Manufacturing Digitalisation in Italy: The Future Behind
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Ramella, Alberto Gherardini
October 01, 2026
Manufacturing Digitalisation in Italy: The Future Behind examines how digitalisation is transforming manufacturing in Italy, with particular attention to the interplay between new technologies and territorially embedded manufacturing systems. Drawing on extensive empirical research, the book ...
Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Lukas Slothuus, Dave Ashby, Catherine Duxbury
September 28, 2026
This book explores interdisciplinary university teaching in both theory and practice, drawing on the experience and expertise of educators from across the social sciences and humanities. Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book ...
Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany
1st Edition
By Susanne Berliner
September 28, 2026
This book is an ethnographic inquiry into the socio-ecological relationalities in an intercultural community garden in Germany, created in 2015 as a Refugees Welcome project. It explores this quietly political space of civic everyday which seeks to foster care for both people and planet. In three ...