Bücher der Reihe Routledge Advances in Sociology

Mobilizing Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management. It takes a point of departure in the mobilities turn and relational place thinking while exploring the relationship between place and mobility.

Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nature, by questioning the boundaries between predominant neurotypes and 'others', including dyslexics, autistics and ADHDers.

Equine Cultures in Transition stands as the first volume to bring together ethical questions of the new field of human-horse studies.

This volume offers readers insight into social constructionist approaches to identity and authenticity. It focuses on the processes of identification and authentication, rather than on subjective experiences of selfhood.

Explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in society. This book identifies hostile media attention around child stars as indicative of broader social concerns about the 'correct' role and place of children in relation to normative ideals of childhood.

From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987 and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation and queer activism.

Does modernization lead to the decline of religion? This question lies at the centre of a key debate in the sociology of religion. This volume provides an understanding of the many ways in which religion interacts with modernization. It contains examination of the society by scholars such as David Voas, Steve Bruce and Anthony Gill.

Explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by medicalizing its environment, a way of solving social problems by treating them as medical problems. This work generates an understanding of how institutionalization of organizations comes about and contributes an insight to the area of social welfare policies.

Presents an analysis of the process of European integration which keeps the relation between elites and citizens at the forefront. This book will be a useful addition to the library of any political sociologist, political scientist or scholar of European integration.

Focuses on the effects of the globalization process on late-midlife workers. This research poses questions about how globalization produced fundamental shifts in late-midlife workers' labor market participation and late careers, and the transformations in old age career mobility. It is aimed at those involved in the study of sociology and welfare.

Taking Weber's interpretations of capitalism and religion, this book re-examines a range of classical and contemporary texts to help explain the character of religion and spirituality in mature capitalist societies. It is intended for students and scholars of social theory, history, the sociology of religion and philosophy.

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.

Offers an account of juvenile delinquency within the modern inner city, an environment which is characterized by a long history of social deprivation and high rates of crime. This book explores topics such as young people's motivation for, frequency of and attitudes towards a variety of illegal behaviors, such as street robbery, theft, and more.

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.

This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immigration on the global north, but also on the effect of immigration on the global south (such as the contribution immigrants make to the economic and social development of their home countries) and the social and economic factors that give rise to immigration in the first place.

Drawing upon the expertise of some of the most prominent names in rural sociology, geography and anthropology, this book shows how globalization has opened up a new regulatory politics.

"Vision and Society is an attempt to show that it is possible to go beyond a sociology of art to the more ambitious possibility of a sociology from art. This book develops a theory of the relationship of the visual and the social and illustrates these with comparative examples from around the world"--

This book focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international, and transnational variants, drawing on ethnographies from across the globe to show that our understanding of migration is broadened and advanced when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of 21st-century global capitalism.

This book explores patterns of gameplay and sociality afforded by online gaming. Bringing together essays from leading and emerging academics, this book explores key issues in understanding online gaming, including: patterns of play, legality, production, identity, gamer communities, communication, social exclusion and inclusion, and considers future directions in online gaming.

This volume is the first major social scientific study of contemporary arts festivals. It will have appeal to a wide readership in cultural sociology, cultural studies and cultural theory.

Offers a reading of both globalization theory and contemporary European transformations. This book provides a critique for thinking about Europe in terms of Empire, and advances the startling claim that Europe should be considered 'postwestern'.

There are complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is limited and highly distorted. Exploring this issue in depth, this book analyzes British media reports of a research review dealing with ethnic inequalities in educational achievement. It covers education, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and social policy.