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Routledge Advances in Sociology


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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.

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Economic Sociology in Europe Recent Trends and Developments

Economic Sociology in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments

1st Edition

Edited By Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel, Alberto Veira-Ramos
December 01, 2023

This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe. Covering a range of case studies from different European countries and regions, the contributions analyse the effects of recent challenges...

The Politics of the Elite Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile

The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile

1st Edition

By Modesto Gayo, María Luisa Méndez
November 24, 2023

This book is a study of class formation at the top of the social hierarchies during the turbulent and changing early twenty-first century. Contrary to perceptions that privileged individuals exist according to little more than market and economic logics, the book provides evidence that they are by ...

Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society

Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society

1st Edition

By Enrico Campo
November 06, 2023

In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties, particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion of a deterioration of attention, and the related ideas of cognitive overload, an inability to concentrate, and attention deficit disorder....

Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times Social Control Policies

Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times: Social Control Policies

1st Edition

Edited By Matilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, Janne Stoneham
September 25, 2023

Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used ...

Political Friendship and Degrowth An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing

Political Friendship and Degrowth: An Ethical Grounding of an Economy of Human Flourishing

1st Edition

By Areti Giannopoulou
September 25, 2023

Developing a contemporary account of political friendship and synthesizing it with the radical movement of degrowth, this book provides the ethical grounding and the rationale of an alternative economy which serves human flourishing. The Aristotelian political friendship embodies active concern for...

Suburbia in the 21st Century From Dreamscape to Nightmare?

Suburbia in the 21st Century: From Dreamscape to Nightmare?

1st Edition

Edited By Paul Maginn, Katrin B. Anacker
September 25, 2023

The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, ...

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television

1st Edition

Edited By Cornelia Klecker, Gudrun M. Grabher
September 25, 2023

The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a person’s identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurements, congenital or acquired, not only erase these significant capacities, but since ancient times, they have been conjured up as outrageous and ...

The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

1st Edition

By Humairah Zainal, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
September 25, 2023

Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do Malays in Singapore and Malaysia conceptualise and negotiate their ethnic identity vis-à-vis the ...

We, Other Utopians Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

We, Other Utopians: Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

1st Edition

By Eva Šlesingerová
September 25, 2023

We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of ...

Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation

Universities and Academic Labour in Times of Digitalisation and Precarisation

1st Edition

By Thomas Allmer
September 08, 2023

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour. While research and teaching become more virtual and digital at universities, academic labour is becoming more and more casualised and temporary. This book aims to analyse and ...

Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World Faith, Fact and Fakery

Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery

1st Edition

By Erkan Ali
August 18, 2023

Drawing on debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book examines what it means to offer a genuine sociological critique of religious faith, illiberalism and anti-secularism from a macro perspective. Arguing that as a discipline concerned with real issues in the social world, sociology ...

Exoskeletal Devices and the Body Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies

Exoskeletal Devices and the Body: Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies

1st Edition

By Denisa Butnaru
July 21, 2023

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices. Challenging material boundaries of human bodies, their capacities, (in)abilities and skills, exoskeletal devices question social norms of corporeal “deviance” and “...

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