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 Technologies and Aging in South Asia and Middle East: Transforming Elderly Care
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By Sheeba Khalid, Glenn W. Muschert, Driss Ed. Daran
April 14, 2026
Khalid, Muschert, and Daran explore how digital technologies are reshaping elderly care in South Asia and the Middle East, addressing the opportunities and challenges of this transformation through a critical sociological and interdisciplinary lens. This book examines whether technological ...
Pandemic Mothering and Neoliberalism: Insights from India
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By Jagriti Gangopadhyay
April 06, 2026
Gangopadhyay defines new categories of motherhood, illustrating how mothers have crafted their own forms of motherhood care and developed the concept of neoliberal motherhood to reflect evolving ideals of motherhood in urban India. Through in-depth interviews with emerging motherhood identities, ...
Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World
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By Luisa T Schneider, Robbert Dillema, Paola Rebughini
March 13, 2026
What does it mean to be confined and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. agency, reform vs. resistance, care vs. control. Across prisons, homes, gardens, seas, and cities, ...
Stories, Imaginations and Sociology: Essays in Honour of Ken Plummer
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By Eamonn Carrabine, Neli Demireva, Róisín Ryan-Flood, Nigel South
February 27, 2026
This book is in honour of the late sociologist Ken Plummer – a remarkable scholar whose work transformed several fields, from his early writing on symbolic interactionism, stigma, and sexualities, through methodological innovations that have underpinned the ‘narrative turn’, to his explorations of ...
Medicine, Money, and Meaning: Practicing Money and Making Medicine
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By Luka Jakelja
February 24, 2026
This book explores the tension between money and medicine: how it emerges, how doctors of different medical disciplines deal with it in various contexts, and what its respective consequences are. It empirically illustrates Georg Simmel’s conceptualization of money as an "absolute means" and ...
Politics of Sensibilities in Global Perspective
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By Adrian Scribano
February 04, 2026
This book introduces and analyses different ways of studying sensibilities. It explores the global production, circulation, management, and reproduction of sensibilities in the 21st century and considers the link between emotions, body, and society. Emphasising the importance of addressing the ...
Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe: The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology
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By Hynek Jeřábek
January 30, 2026
This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European postwar sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld’s inventions and his methodological, organisational, and ...
Linking Ages: A Dialogue between Childhood and Ageing Research
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By Anna Wanka, Tabea Freutel-Funke, Sabine Andresen, Frank Oswald
January 30, 2026
When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too young, or too old, to do something – and what age is the right one? Age, thereby, is a central social category for Western societies: more than gender, ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 4: Singular Experiences of Family, Work and Leisure
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By Will Atkinson
January 30, 2026
This fourth volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies finishes the series by exploring how class infuses people’s past and present efforts to juggle family, work and leisure.Previous volumes in the series have examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class structures in ...
The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion
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By Abílio Almeida
January 30, 2026
The book is divided into two sections: one focusing on the phenomenon of television and the other on audiences. It argues that television is changing from a singular object, fixed in a particular place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms. It also argues that ...
The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move
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By Maria Sophia Aguirre, Antonio Argandoña
January 30, 2026
This book explores the role of "home" in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and temporary workers. For displaced people, home is something lost, longed for and sometimes found anew. It is a community of ...
BrAsian Family Practices and Reflexivity: Behind the Boxing Ropes
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By Izram Chaudry
November 28, 2025
Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger ...