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.
Digital Communities Post-Pandemic: Social(ly Distanced) Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda Clark, Alexis Paperman, Sophia E Du Val
January 08, 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 ...
Public Procurement and the Welfare State: Public Purchasing Between Technical Tool and Socio-Political Practice
1st Edition
By E.K. Sarter
October 30, 2026
Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, this book puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies. Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh ...
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 07, 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
Edited
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 ...
Citizenship in Crisis in Athens: Migration, Media and Identity
1st Edition
By Afroditi-Maria Koulaxi
August 27, 2026
Citizenship in Crisis in Athens explores the construction of citizen identity through embodied and mediated encounters with noncitizen migrants in the spatio-temporality of compounded crises. Widely recognised as central to contemporary social and political life, the dynamics of citizenship are ...
Migration, Mobility and Education: Examining the Role of Family and Schooling
1st Edition
By Kate Hoskins, Bernard Barker
August 27, 2026
This book examines the role of family and schooling through an interpretive, qualitative, intergenerational case study. It examines the formation of academic and vocational aspirations by second generation (G2) migrant students from diverse international backgrounds. Looking at the influence of ...
The New Social Contract Between Generations: Profiguration
1st Edition
By Fidel Molina-Luque
August 27, 2026
The cornerstone of this book is the innovative concept of profiguration, a term coined by Fidel Molina-Luque to encapsulate the essential agreement and recognition required between generations in contemporary society. Profiguration emphasises the intrinsic value of interdependence across all age ...
After the Pandemic: Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Work and Unpaid Domestic Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris L. Peterson
August 07, 2026
Presenting a sociological perspective on globalisation and COVID-19 impacts, this book examines the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the structure of work and unpaid domestic labour. Labour patterns have influenced political, social, and economic spheres that affect organisational practices. ...