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.
São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century: Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
August 14, 2020
This book analyzes in detail the main social, economic and special transformation of the city of São Paulo. In the last 30 years, São Paulo has become a more heterogeneous and less unequal city. Contrary to some expectations, the recent economic transformations did not produce social polarization, ...
Values and Identities in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey
1st Edition
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By Michael J. Breen
August 14, 2020
Contrary to what is suggested in media and popular discourses, Europe is neither a monolithic entity nor simply a collection of nation states. It is, rather, a union of millions of individuals who differ from one another in a variety of ways while also sharing many characteristics associated with ...
Academic Capitalism: Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence
1st Edition
By Richard Münch
June 30, 2020
This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the ...
Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users’ Guide to Urban Space
1st Edition
By Christopher B.R. Smith
June 30, 2020
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and the social ...
Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Sue Westwood
June 30, 2020
Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms ...
Beyond Capital: Values, Commons, Computing, and the Search for a Viable Future
1st Edition
By David Hakken, Maurizio Teli, Barbara Andrews
June 30, 2020
The financial/social cataclysm beginning in 2007 ended notions of a “great moderation” and the view that capitalism had overcome its systemic tendencies to crisis. The subsequent failure of contemporary social formations to address the causes of the crisis gives renewed impetus to better analysis ...
Call Centers and the Global Division of Labor: A Political Economy of Post-Industrial Employment and Union Organizing
1st Edition
By Andrew J.R. Stevens
June 30, 2020
Call centers have come, in the last three decades, to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. The offshoring and outsourcing of call center employment, part of the larger information technology and ...
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development: On Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
June 30, 2020
It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus ...
Comedy and Social Science: Towards a Methodology of Funny
1st Edition
By Cate Watson
June 30, 2020
While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present their research rather seriously. In academia, humor tends to be trivialized and dismissed. This is ...
Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
1st Edition
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By Boel Berner, Jane Summerton
June 30, 2020
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations. With ...
Equine Cultures in Transition: Ethical Questions
1st Edition
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By Jonna Bornemark, Petra Andersson, Ulla Ekström von Essen
June 30, 2020
Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand animal agency? These questions, asked both in theoretical discourses and different practices, are also relevant for our understanding of horses and the...
Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies
1st Edition
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By Enes Bayraklı, Farid Hafez
June 30, 2020
In the last decade, Islamophobia in Western societies, where Muslims constitute the minority, has been studied extensively. However, Islamophobia is not restricted to the geography of the West, but rather constitutes a global phenomenon. It affects Muslim societies just as much, due to various ...