Routledge Advances in Sociology

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1. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Socioeconomic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis

   Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Case Studies

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book originates from a comparative research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on socioeconomic outcomes of the global financial crisis in all major world regions during...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies

   By Christian Fuchs

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

   By David C. Kraemer

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much-quoted insight: 'you are what you eat.' But this book goes beyond that simple truism to recognise that you are not only what you eat, but also how,...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Interpreting Human Rights

   Social Science Perspectives

   Edited by Rhiannon Morgan, Bryan Turner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In recent decades, human rights have come to occupy an apparently unshakable position as a key and pervasive feature of contemporary global public culture. At the same time, human rights have become a central focus of research in the social sciences, embracing distinctive analytical and empirical...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Managing Overflow in Affluent Societies

   Edited by Barbara Czarniawska, Orvar Löfgren

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   “It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow – framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Neighborhood in the Internet

    Design Research Projects in Community Informatics

    By John M. Carroll

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community...

    Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge