Sociology of Culture Books

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41. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

    Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
42. Chinatowns in a Transnational World

    Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon

    Edited by Vanessa Künnemann, Ruth Mayer

    This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites. Despite obvious...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
43. The Theatre and the State in Singapore

    Orthodoxy and Resistance

    By Terence Chong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
44. Commemorative Events

    Memory, Identities, Conflict

    By Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing

    Series: Routledge Advances in Event Research Series

    Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
45. Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Siân Nicholas, Tom O'Malley

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
46. Love

    By Tom Inglis

    Series: Shortcuts

    Love is a dominant theme in Western popular culture. It has become central to the meaning of everyday life, propagated through the media and the market. Being in love has become idealised. With the demise of institutional religion in the West, romantic love has become the dominant form of...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
47. Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society

    Edited by Jerome Braun, Lauren Langman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
48. Staging Mobilities

    By Ole B. Jensen

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
49. The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932

    By Matthias Neumann

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
50. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge