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.
Magic, Science and Society
1st Edition
By Alex Dennis
August 29, 2025
Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the ‘rationality debate’ has developed over the last century, from E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s study of Azande magic, through Peter Winch’s argument that there can be no such thing as a social science, across the arguments about the proper status of ...
Privileged Migrants Across the Globe: Experiences of Inclusion, Exclusion and Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Diotima Chattoraj
August 29, 2025
Chattoraj and contributors explore the concept of privileged migration in the context of globalization, shedding light on the experiences of a demographic often overshadowed in migration discourse. The book delves into the rising mobility of various groups, including students, skilled ...
The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 3: Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals
1st Edition
By Will Atkinson
August 29, 2025
This book continues the Class Structure of Capitalist Societies series by exploring the place of class among a confluence of factors in shaping people’s lives, loves and lifestyles across three nations. Previous volumes in the series examined the shape, history and cultural expressions of class ...
The Pragmatics of Precarious Work: Security and Vulnerability in the Pandemic Economy
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Z. Jankowski
August 21, 2025
Drawing on data collected in London’s precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability. The analysis spans the full scope of precarious working: procedures of job searching and ...
Digital Media and the Daily Lives of China’s Senior Citizens
1st Edition
By Chen Guo
August 13, 2025
Guo provides a comprehensive outlook of how digital media is transforming the daily lives of senior citizens in China. The book explores the important role digital media play in senior citizens’ daily lives and the disparities of third agers’ digital well-being. It applies the concepts of digital ...
Invisible Seasides: A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia’s Past and Imagining its Afterlife
1st Edition
By Tony Blackshaw
August 01, 2025
Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, past and present, to bear on how we understand ...
The Measured Life in the Digital Age: Optimisation by Numbers
1st Edition
Edited
By Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa
August 01, 2025
This book examines both the productive and counterproductive dimensions of the increasing orientation towards digital figures. Building on findings of the transdisciplinary research project "The Measured Life", the book explores the social, cultural and psychological implications of digital ...
Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving
1st Edition
By Paula Ambrossi
July 31, 2025
While research evidence shows the negative impact of ability grouping on children, this book suggests that the reason the practice is still embraced is the unspoken allegiance to the values of empire that governments, schools, and many parents still uphold, promoting competition and hierarchies ...
Education Strategy in a Changing Society: Personalised, Smarter, Lifelong Learning in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Martin Slattery
July 31, 2025
Placing the UK in a global context, this book engages with the emerging international debate on the future of education in the 21st century. It examines the post-pandemic paradigm shift in educational practice in countries around the world and presents international case studies of emerging future ...
Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany
1st Edition
By Susanne Berliner
July 31, 2025
This book is an ethnographic inquiry into the socio-ecological relationalities in an intercultural community garden in Germany, created in 2015 as a Refugees Welcome project. It explores this quietly political space of civic everyday which seeks to foster care for both people and planet. In three ...
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall: German Unification and Transformation Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt
July 30, 2025
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and ...
Sociology of Hope: A New Theory
1st Edition
By Adrian Scribano
July 01, 2025
This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the “state of the art” of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women, and to the reconstruction of the ...