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.

Contains analyses of the relationships people have during their lives and how these affect their individual welfare. This title discusses relationships between members of a couple, between parents and children, between the children themselves and between non-related individuals.

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Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from case studies of social inequality in ten countries within all the major regions of the world. It provides an assessment of the overall social globalization phenomenon in the global world.

How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? This book examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1980s-1990s.

Rom Harre has authored an impressive oeuvre that has inspired generations of scholars and practioners. His work has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. This book brings together a selection of his key writings that gives readers a systematic introduction in the conceptual universe of this towering figure.

Featuring both well known and emerging scholars from the UK, the USA and mainland Europe, this fascinating new volume addresses core theoretical and methodological developments before going on to examine key substantive themes in the study of young people's identities and lifestyles.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This book explores the 'break with tonality', Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the 'sacred' in music and tells us about the condition of modernity.

Explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity. This book looks at significant developments in Jewish eating in various ages: in the ancient Near East and Persia, in the Classical age, throughout the Middle Ages and into Modernity.

Informal work - family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work - is a critical form of labor in the economy, yet remains underanalyzed and examined. This title develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of informal work and analyses the relationship of formal and informal work.

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.

A collection that intervenes into the debates surrounding feminism's contentious relationship with domesticity in popular culture. It touches on topics ranging from reality television shows like "How Clean is Your House?" to the figure of the maid in contemporary American cinema.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.