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.
Public Procurement and the Welfare State: Public Purchasing Between Technical Tool and Socio-Political Practice
1st Edition
By E.K. Sarter
October 09, 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 ...
Manufacturing Digitalization in Italy: The Future Behind
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesco Ramella, Alberto Gherardini
September 30, 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 ...
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. Following...
A Sociology of Awkwardness: On Social Interactions Going Wrong
1st Edition
By Pauwke Berkers, Yosha Wijngaarden
July 20, 2026
A Sociology of Awkwardness shows how awkward feelings are the outcome of social interactions going wrong. Combing insights from cultural sociology and the sociologies of interactions and emotions, this book develops the first comprehensive sociology of awkwardness. It provides an understanding of ...
Avoiding Retirement in Chile: Extending Working Lives in an Uncertain and Precarious Context
1st Edition
By Ignacio Cabib
July 20, 2026
Drawing on life-course, gender, and welfare regime theories and relying on primary longitudinal qualitative data (life- story interviews with 90 older workers) and primary longitudinal quantitative data (life-course calendar surveys among 802 older individuals), Avoiding Retirement in Chile ...
Home and Climate Change: Transforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
1st Edition
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By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
June 19, 2026
This book highlights the role of the home as a central social unit of resilience in the face of climate change and sustainable living in contemporary cities. It examines how climate change affects households, how we can curb its impact, and how policy, planning, architecture and economy can be ...
Social Construction as a Complex Attractor: The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence
1st Edition
By John A. Smith, Anna Wilson
June 12, 2026
This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought. The idea that reality is socially constructed has dominated sociological thinking since Berger and Luckmann’s ...
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Sharenting: Parenting, Privacy, and Consent
1st Edition
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By Gergely Ferenc Lendvai, Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú, Anca Velicu, András Koltay
June 12, 2026
This book explores sharenting—the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children online—and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society. Offering a transdisciplinary framework that ...
Failure Irrationality: Obsession, Engendering and Sound in Contemporary Policymaking
1st Edition
By Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki
June 10, 2026
This book is about irrationality and policy failures. It argues that policy failures are not rational in the sense of a policy action plan that led to an error of implementation or lack of success, followed by decision-making, coping and learning. Policy failures are rational in that they entertain...
Young Migrant Narratives: Ontological Security, Identity, and Belonging in Scotland
1st Edition
By Marcus Nicolson
June 08, 2026
This book explores how young adult migrants in Scotland navigate everyday life through processes of ontological security-seeking, revealing how identity is negotiated in relation to experiences of uncertainty, perceived difference, and political narrative. Drawing on narrative interviews and ...
Deysi, Gender, and Violence: Making a Life Under Democracy and Dictatorship
1st Edition
By Ana S.Q. Liberato
May 22, 2026
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic. Deysi’s life narrative is a microhistory that sheds light on the intersection of gender, ...
Dynamics of Uncertainty, Unrest and Fragility in Europe: In the Shadow of the Ukraine and Migration Crises
1st Edition
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By Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen
May 22, 2026
This book examines some of the most pressing issues affecting contemporary societies in Europe in the 2020s, namely uncertainty, unrest and the fragility of individuals and groups. Monika Banaś, Vesa Puuronen and their contributors analyse a selection of challenges affecting the present and near ...