Sociology & Social Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing

   Edited by Rosalind Edwards, Suki Ali, Chamion Caballero, Miri Song

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   People from a ‘mixed’ or ‘inter’ racial and ethnic background, and people partnering and parenting across different racial and ethnic backgrounds, are of increasing political, public and intellectual interest internationally. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection interrogate notions of...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Prostitution Scandals in China

   Policing, Media and Society

   By Elaine Jeffreys

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Migration and Citizenship Attribution

   Politics and Policies in Western Europe

   Edited by Maarten Vink

   How do states in Western Europe deal with the challenges of migration for citizenship? The legal relationship between a person and a state is becoming increasingly blurred in our mobile, transnational world. This volume deals with the membership dimension of citizenship, specifically the formal...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Media Studies: The Basics

   By Julian McDougall

   Series: The Basics

   There have been seismic shifts in what constitutes (the) media in recent years with technological advances ushering in whole new categories of producers, consumers and modes of delivery. This has been reflected in the way media is studied with new theories, concepts and practices coming to the fore...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Bilingual Pre-Teens

   Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany

   By Janet M. Fuller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories. Fuller chooses for...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

   Edited by Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Despite society’s current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children’s health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people’s lives. In this important...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
8. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

   Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck

   Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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