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1. Changing Gay Male Identities

   By Andrew Cooper

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As the world changes, so sexual identities are changing. In a context of globalisation, mass communication and technological advances, individuals find themselves able to make lifestyle choices in new and different ways. In this increasingly confusing world, sociologists have argued that identities...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Tocqueville's Virus

   Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought

   By Mark Featherstone

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?

   The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education

   By Martyn Hammersley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Institutionalization of Social Welfare

   A Study of Medicalizing Management

   By Mikael Holmqvist

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Today most countries rely on formally organized welfare programs - in some cases to the extent that they are labeled "welfare states". These programs, which have been constructed over the last decades, make up a larger national and international system of good intentions. Overall, it appears...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination

   By Thomas Lemke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
7. Sustainable Practices

   Social Theory and Climate Change

   Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Nicola Spurling

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Atoms, Bytes and Genes

   Public Resistance and Socio-Technical Responses

   By Martin Bauer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book demonstrates the varied contributions of public resistance to technological developments. Bauer compares public resistance to three strategic technologies over the last fifty years (nuclear power, information technology, and genetic engineering), and shows how resistance contributes to...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Consuming Families

   Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century

   By Jo Lindsay, JaneMaree Maher

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies

    A Theory of Sociotechnical Change

    By Ulrich Dolata

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change....

    Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge