Routledge Advances in Sociology
About the Book Series
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.
Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany
1st Edition
By Susanne Berliner
July 31, 2025
This book is an ethnographic inquiry into the socio-ecological relationalities in an intercultural community garden in Germany, created in 2015 as a Refugees Welcome project. It explores this quietly political space of civic everyday which seeks to foster care for both people and planet. In three ...
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall: German Unification and Transformation Research
1st Edition
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By Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt
July 30, 2025
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and ...
Sociology of Hope: A New Theory
1st Edition
By Adrian Scribano
July 01, 2025
This book explores the sociology of hope. It presents an overview of the “state of the art” of hope in sociology and proposes a new basic theory of hope linked to the classical theoretical traditions of sociology, to the perspective of its founding women, and to the reconstruction of the ...
Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Lukas Slothuus, Dave Ashby, Catherine Duxbury
June 27, 2025
This book explores interdisciplinary university teaching in both theory and practice, drawing on the experience and expertise of educators from across the social sciences and humanities. Based around pedagogical theory and concrete practical examples and experiences from the classroom, the book ...
Neoliberalism and Insecurity in Advanced Capitalism
1st Edition
By Michael A. Long, Andrew S. Fullerton, Paul B. Stretesky
May 27, 2025
This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post‑World War II period and continuing up through the present. Neoliberalism – the dominant political economic perspective that elevates competition above all else at both the structural and individual ...
A Sociological Genealogy of Culture Wars
1st Edition
By Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen, Josetxo Beriain
May 06, 2025
This book analyzes the culture wars as those struggles for the monopoly of the legitimate representation of the world in the normative elucidation of controversial issues linked to values. Public culture in this context would consist of a set of complex classificatory systems of symbols and ...
Economic Sociology in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments
1st Edition
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By Andrea Maurer, Sebastian Nessel, Alberto Veira-Ramos
May 06, 2025
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...
Southern Theories: Contemporary and Future Challenges
1st Edition
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By Oliver Mutanga, Tendayi Marovah
May 06, 2025
This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, ...
The Politics of the Elite: Ideological Orientations, Mothering, and Social Mobilities in Neoliberal Chile
1st Edition
By Modesto Gayo, María Luisa Méndez
March 13, 2025
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 ...
Class and Time-Based Subjective Inequality: Wealth Forecast
1st Edition
By Nicolas Duvoux
March 11, 2025
Challenging the inference in social science that taking subjectivity into account somehow conflicts with approaches that emphasize the reality of the material conditions of existence, this book shows how subjective perceptions of one’s future can help to capture class and inequality, considering ...
Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism: Toward a New Global Dialogue
1st Edition
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By Yasuko Takezawa, Faye V. Harrison, Akio Tanabe
January 28, 2025
Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe, and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature. Racism is not a uniquely ...
Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery
1st Edition
By Erkan Ali
December 18, 2024
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 ...