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.
The Capitalist Personality: Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World
1st Edition
By Christopher S. Swader
May 22, 2015
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers...
The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism: Specters of Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Tomas Marttila
May 22, 2015
This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative discourse analysis, the book describes the ...
Seeing Religion: Toward a Visual Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Roman Williams
May 14, 2015
The potential of visual research methods in the sociology of religion is vast, but largely untapped. This comes as a surprise, however, given the visual, symbolic, and material nature of religion and spirituality. Evidence of religious faith and practice is materially present in everything from ...
People and Societies: Rom Harré and Designing the Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Luk van Langenhove
April 27, 2015
Rom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social ...
Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought
1st Edition
By Mark Featherstone
April 27, 2015
In the 1850s the social and political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville spoke of ‘a virus of a new and unknown kind’ to explain the inexplicable failure of the French Revolution. This book uses Tocqueville’s idea of the virus to explore the fatal relationship between the concepts of utopia and ...
Creation and Returns of Social Capital
1st Edition
Edited
By Henk Flap, Beate Völker
April 10, 2015
The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of ...
Virtual Globalization: Virtual Spaces/Tourist Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By David Holmes
December 23, 2014
This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose ...
The International Recording Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Marshall
April 27, 2015
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and ...
Touring Poverty
1st Edition
By Bianca Freire-Medeiros
April 27, 2015
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption...
Interpreting Human Rights: Social Science Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner
November 11, 2014
In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical ...
Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty
September 12, 2014
The construction industry as a workplace is commonly seen as problematic for a number of reasons, including its worrying health and safety record, the instability of its workforce, and the poorly regulated nature of the sector. It is surprising therefore, that the sector and its working practices ...
Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem
September 12, 2014
This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the ...