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.
Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Canada, Taiwan, and the United States
1st Edition
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By Eric Fong, Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, Nancy Denton
March 03, 2016
As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other ...
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects
1st Edition
By Peter J. Hutchings
January 20, 2016
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth ...
Irish Insanity: 1800–2000
1st Edition
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By Damien Brennan
December 07, 2015
The national public asylum system in Ireland was established during the early nineteenth century and continued to operate up to the close of the twentieth century. These asylums / mental hospitals were a significant physical and social feature of Irish communities. They were used intensively and ...
Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology: Putting the “Institution” Back in Institutional Analysis
1st Edition
By Seth Abrutyn
December 07, 2015
There may not be a concept so central to sociology, yet so vaguely defined in its contemporary usages, than institution. In Revisiting Institutionalism in Sociology, Abrutyn takes an in-depth look at what institutions are by returning to some of the insights of classical theorists like Max Weber ...
Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe: Understanding When Change Happens
1st Edition
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By Peter Utting, Mario Pianta, Anne Ellersiek
November 03, 2015
Civil society activism around issues of global justice has proliferated in Europe during the past two decades. Has such contestation and advocacy made a difference? This book examines whether and how the organizations, networks and campaigns involved have attained their policy objectives in the ...
Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production
1st Edition
By Leandro Rodriguez Medina
October 12, 2015
This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. It explores not only how knowledge is appropriated in peripheral fields but also how foreign ideas shape those ...
Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination
1st Edition
By Thomas Lemke
October 12, 2015
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with ...
Applying Ibn Khaldūn: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology
1st Edition
By Syed Farid Alatas
October 06, 2015
The writings of Ibn Khaldūn, particularly the Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon) have rightly been regarded as being sociological in nature. For this reason, Ibn Khaldūn has been widely regarded as the founder of sociology, or at least a precursor of modern sociology. While he was given this recognition, ...
Racism, Governance, and Public Policy: Beyond Human Rights
1st Edition
By Katy Sian, Ian Law, S. Sayyid
September 29, 2015
This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive ...
The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre
1st Edition
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By Nik Taylor, Richard Twine
September 29, 2015
As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform ...
Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts
1st Edition
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By Manata Hashemi, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski
September 16, 2015
This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their ...
Consuming Families: Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Jo Lindsay, JaneMaree Maher
September 16, 2015
This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social ...