View All Book Series

BOOK SERIES


Routledge Advances in Sociology


About the 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.

399 Series Titles

Per Page
Sort

Display
The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing

The Pragmatics of Governmental Discourse: Resilience, Sustainability and Wellbeing

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Ayan-Yue Gupta
August 16, 2024

This book presents a novel methodological framework for analysing governmental discourse that combines pragmatist perspectives on language with computational sociolinguistics and large language models. The first half engages with critical traditions of discourse analysis such as Critical Discourse ...

What is the Sociology of Philosophy? Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy

What is the Sociology of Philosophy?: Studies of Swedish and Scandinavian Philosophy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Carl-Göran Heidegren, Henrik Lundberg
August 09, 2024

This book introduces the sociology of philosophy as a research field, asking what can be gained by looking at the discipline of philosophy from a sociological perspective and how to go about doing it, as presented through three case studies of 20th-century Swedish and Scandinavian philosophy. After...

Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism Toward a New Global Dialogue

Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison, Akio Tanabe
July 31, 2024

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature. Racism is not a uniquely ...

A Sociological Approach to Commodification The Case of Transforming the Post-Socialist Society in Poland

A Sociological Approach to Commodification: The Case of Transforming the Post-Socialist Society in Poland

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Marek Ziółkowski, Rafał Drozdowski, Mariusz Baranowski
June 14, 2024

This book analyses the processes of commodification and decommodification which have wrought changes in Polish society since 1945. Examining the case of Poland, this book also explores comparisons to other countries in the Eastern European region. It is the first book to capture long-term social ...

Magic, Science and Society

Magic, Science and Society

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Alex Dennis
June 14, 2024

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 ...

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences

Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction: A New and Urgent Philosophy for Complexity in the Social Sciences

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By John Smith, Anna Wilson
June 14, 2024

This book has two interlocking ambitions. The first is to steer what we purposefully call the idioms of critical philosophy towards a more ecologically-informed paradigm. The second is to recognise that what has rightly come to be called The Anthropocene Extinction is not and cannot be treated as ...

Globalisation and Pandemic Management Issues and Outcomes from COVID-19

Globalisation and Pandemic Management: Issues and Outcomes from COVID-19

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Chris L. Peterson
May 07, 2024

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience. It presents the effects of COVID-19 on global and local labour markets, the development of digitisation and technology, of work health, and ...

Death and the Afterlife Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Kit Ying Lye, Terence Heng
May 06, 2024

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplinary perspective of how individuals and collectives “do” death and interact with the dead. Through case studies of Singaporean Chinese religion ...

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 3 Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals

The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies, Volume 3: Love, Lifestyles and a Multiplicity of Capitals

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Will Atkinson
April 01, 2024

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 ...

Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall German Unification and Transformation Research

Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall: German Unification and Transformation Research

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt
March 29, 2024

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 ...

Bottom Set Citizen Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving

Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools – Meritocracy’s Undeserving

1st Edition

By Paula Ambrossi
March 19, 2024

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 ...

A Sociology of Humankind How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict

A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict

1st Edition

By Jeroen Bruggeman
March 13, 2024

Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab experiments, ...

1-12 of 399
AJAX loader