Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Of Women 'Inside'

   Prison Voices from India

   By Rani Dhavan Shankardass

   Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or actual violations of the state’s criminal laws, contextualizing women offenders’ experiences of the criminal justice system and of state custodial...

   Published March 30th 2012 by Routledge India
4. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia

   By Armine Ishkanian

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process. It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society on the assumption that democratization would follow from the...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
6. The International Migration of Health Workers

   Edited by John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers. The contributors focus on who migrates, why they migrate, what the outcomes are for them and their extended families, what their experiences in the workforce are, and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Beyond Relativism

   Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism

   By Cynthia Lins Hamlin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

   This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Selling the Welfare State (Routledge Revivals)

   The Privatisation of Public Housing

   By Ray Forrest, Alan Murie

   Originally published in 1988, this book offers the first comprehensive and critical analysis of the privatisation of public housing in Britain. It outlines the historical background to the growth of public housing and the developing political debatea surrounding its disposal. The main emphasis...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
9. IBSS: Sociology: 2010 Vol.60

   International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

   Edited by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science

   First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers & librarians....

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment

    By Sheldon Ekland-Olson

    Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

    Issues of Life and Death such as abortion, assisted suicide, capital punishment and others are among the most contentious in many societies. Whose rights are protected? How do these rights and protections change over time and who makes those decisions? Based on the author’s award-winning and hugely...

    Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge