Sociology of Knowledge Products

By Martin Grünfeld

Across disciplinary borders, clarity is taken for granted as a cardinal virtue of communication in contemporary academia. But what is clarity, how is it practised in writing across disciplinary borders and how does it affect our ways of researching and thinking? This book explores such questions by…

Hardback – 2019-07-13 
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Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

Edited by Enzo Colombo, Paola Rebughini

Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues…

Hardback – 2019-06-10 
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By John Oxenham

Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should be so. In particular, it examines whether or not the possession of reading or writing skills has, or has not, influenced the values and organisation of…

Paperback – 2019-06-01 
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Routledge Library Editions: Literacy

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Brian K. Gran

As sociologists deepen their examinations of human rights in their teaching, research and thinking, it is essential that such work is conducted in a manner that is both mindful and critical of the knowledge we are building upon in both sociology and human rights. As the authors of this volume…

Paperback – 2019-05-31 
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By Verena Namberger

The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates, and research subjects; and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding…

Hardback – 2019-05-08 
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Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

By Stavit Sinai

Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social imaginaries. As a discursive practice that was enmeshed in the meta-narratives of modernity, the discipline of sociology bears the inherent capacity to…

Hardback – 2019-04-16 
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International Library of Sociology

Edited by Didier Bigo, Engin Isin, Evelyn Ruppert

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.…

Paperback – 2019-03-27 
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Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology

By Claudia Derichs

Whereas Area Studies and cross-border cooperation research conventionally demarcates groups of people by geographical boundaries, individuals might in fact feel more connected by shared values and principles than by conventional spatial dimensions. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Global Cooperation Series

By Robert Bickel

With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists. In the context of an examination of…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

By Maurizio Meloni

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for biological heredity. Such views shaped the politics of human heredity: in the eugenic era, controlling heredity meant intervening in the…

Paperback – 2019-01-16
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Edited by Claudia Lapping, Tamara Bibby

The social world is saturated with powerful formations of knowledge that colonise individual and institutional identities. Some knowledge emerges as legitimised and authoritative; other knowledge is resisted or repressed. Psychosocial approaches highlight the unstable basis of knowledge, learning…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
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By Robert Aman

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge,…

Paperback – 2019-01-03
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education