Major Works: Forthcoming Sociology & Social Policy

Forthcoming Books – Page 1

1. Chinese Media

   Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   From an area of specialist research a decade ago China’s media has become now an important element of research and teaching worldwide, not only in specific Chinese cultural studies courses at the university level but increasingly in post-graduate research and in the domain of business consultancy....

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   Reissuing works originally published between 1970 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology offers a selection of scholarship covering this important branch of philosophy and method. Volumes cover theories of Husserl and Heidegger, and branch out to such topics as psychology, Marxism,...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

   By Maurice Roche

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter the ultimately reductionist...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Life Forms and Meaning Structure

   By Alfred Schutz

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests....

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis

   A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society

   By Barry Smart

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology. This critical reappraisal of the relevance of...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Phenomenology and the Social World

   The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and its Relation to the Social Sciences

   By Laurie Spurling

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   The term ‘phenomenology’ has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that other word from Continental Philosophy, namely ‘existentialism’. Yet Husserl, who first put forward the phenomenological method, considered it a rigorous alternative to positivism, and in the hands of...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Phenomenology and Marxism

   Edited by Bernhard Waldenfels, Jan M. Broekman, Ante Pažanin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

   Originally published in English in 1984, this collection of essays documents a dialogue between phenomenology and Marxism, with the contributors representing a cross-section from the two traditions. The theoretical and historical presuppositions of the phenomenology inaugurated by Husserl are very...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Politics and the Internet

   Edited by William H. Dutton

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!(Valid until 3 months after publication) It is commonplace to observe that the Internet—and the dizzying technologies and applications which it continues to spawn—has revolutionized human communications. But, while the medium’s impact has apparently been immense, the...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Social Transformation in China

   Edited by Jieyu Liu

   Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

   Since the late 1970s, China has transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned backwater to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. Whilst economic reform has enabled average living standards to improve immensely, the benefits have been shared disproportionately depending on demographic...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge