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.
Hybrid Labour: Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment
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By Annalisa Murgia
May 22, 2026
This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human ...
Legacies of the Surveillance State: Communities Living in the Shadows
1st Edition
By Cliodhna Pierce
May 22, 2026
In an age of invasive technology and mass data collection, how can we understand the true impact of surveillance on our lives and communities? Legacies of the Surveillance State offers a chilling exploration of two historical surveillance societies: East Germany and Northern Ireland during the ...
Youth Radicalisation in Europe: Nativists vs. Islamists
1st Edition
By Ayhan Kaya
April 30, 2026
Based on extensive in-depth interview research with young Europeans, this book reveals the root causes of radicalisation among European youth with different ethno-cultural and religious backgrounds. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and the voices of young people themselves, the book ...
Pandemics and Predicting the Probable: A Longitudinal and Mixed Methods Analysis of Covid-19 in Italy
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By Maria Paola Faggiano, Carmelo Lombardo
April 29, 2026
This book provides the first systematic, quali-quantitative examination of how perception, orientation, and anticipation of the future are produced and reproduced in disruptive times. Utilizing an extensive and assorted Italian data set, it revolves around the contemporary sociological discussion ...
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, ...