Sociology: Social Policy

By Jeppe von Platz

How should we design our economic systems? Should we tax the rich at a higher rate than the poor? Should we have a minimum wage? Should the state provide healthcare for all? These and many related questions are the subject of distributive justice, and different theories of distributive justice…

Paperback – 2020-04-09 
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By Helen X. H. Bao

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision making, neighbourhood decision making, housing prices, housing cycles, housing wealth effects, and housing satisfaction. Using experimental and field data, the book demonstrates the effects of six…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
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By Barbara A. Misztal

Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life and argues for the centrality of self-making to the quality of later life. Aiming to enrich an understanding of ageing as the unfolding process in which people try to negotiate vulnerabilities of their bodies and manage mortality, it explores…

Hardback – 2020-02-28 
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Sara N Amin, Danielle Watson, Christian Girard

This book examines questions about the changing nature of security and insecurity in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Previous discussions of security in the Pacific region have been largely determined by the geo-political interests of the Global North. This volume instead attempts to centre PICs’…

Hardback – 2020-02-28 
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South

Edited by Matthew Kaplan, Leng Leng Thang, Jaco Hoffman, Mariano Sánchez

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerationally enriched environments. Filled with vivid examples of how ICZs breathe new life into communities and social practices, this important volume focuses on…

Paperback – 2020-02-28 
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Edited by Rhonda Phillips, Mark A. Brennan

Culture is a living thing. In social settings, it is often used to represent entire ways of life, including rules, values and expected behavior. Varying from nation to nation, neighborhood to neighborhood, and beyond even in the smallest localities, culture is a motivating factor in the creation of…

Paperback – 2020-02-21 
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Community Development Research and Practice Series

By Eugenia Caracciolo Di Torella, Annick Masselot

This book explores the emerging engagement of EU law with care, childcare and long-term carers. The book argues that the regulation of care is crucial because it enables the development of a broad range of EU policies, allowing the sustainability of society and ultimately allowing individuals to…

Hardback – 2020-02-18 
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Edited by Kathryn Henne, Rita Shah

Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and…

Hardback – 2020-02-07 
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By Celia Briar

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the policies of governments throughout the 20th century. It looks at the state in defining what is women's work and men's work, and at equal pay and…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Revivals

By Trygve Tholfsen

Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Revivals

By Nancy J. Wellmeier

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States. The book focuses on a predominantly Maya town in rural Florida and shows how members of this ancient Central American civilization use…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Ritual

By N.J. Habraken

Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction. Together, the essays touch on a number of ideas: the idea that our position in space relative to the…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Revivals