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.
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Examining how youths in fourteen industrialized societies make the transition to adulthood in an era of globalization and rising uncertainty, this collection of essays investigates the impact that institutions working with social groups of youths have upon those youths' abilities to make adult...
Published October 7th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City offers an interpretive 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. A wide range of topics are explored, such as young people's...
Published March 14th 2007 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited...
Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their employment career. This impressive new...
Published June 6th 2006 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
This key book is at the cutting edge of academic research within this sphere of sociology. How discourse develops in children is a critical concept for discourse learning (the development of basic premises of knowledge). This important work takes this idea and applies it to social groups and...
Published June 21st 2005 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Most research on social movements has ignored the significance of emotions. This edited volume seeks to redress this oversight and introduces new research themes and tools to the field of emotions and social movements. Sociologists and political activists around the world will find this volume to...
Published May 24th 2005 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of...
Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
This book examines the widespread cultural and political consequences of the proliferation of popular health advice. It provides a key theoretical contribution to the sociological study of health and embodiment by illuminating the processes of social change that have transformed how individuals...
Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children...
Published October 29th 2003 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the...
Published September 3rd 2003 by Routledge
