Books in the Routledge Advances in Sociology series

Childhood, Literature and Science investigates how different child figures emerge or disappear in imaginative and social representations, in the memories of adult selves, and in expert knowledge.

This collection critically questions linear, transitional justice time and highlights the different temporalities that exist at local and institutional levels through original empirical research.

Towards A Sociology of Central Asian Youth seeks to critically broaden the discussion on youth transitions discourse by moving beyond the geographical terrain of North America, Britain, Australia and Western Europe. The work establishes an in-depth understanding of young Central Asian, with a special focus on those in Uzbekistan. This is accomplished through the explanatory powers of the various forms of sociological theory and, specifically, by pursuing an ambitious aim: to introduce the classic sociological debate about the relationship between structure and agency in social behaviour into the study of modern Central Asia.

This book critically considers how the DIY concept can be used to study contemporary underground music scenes examining themes such as local and trans-local connections, technological change, cultural policy, memory and heritage.

This groundbreaking collection is the first to focus specifically on LGBT* people and dementia. Multi-disciplinary and international in scope, it includes authors from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, social work, psychology, health care and socio-legal studies. Taking an intersectional approach, LGBT Individuals Living with Dementia addresses topics relating to concepts, practice and rights.

National Policy-Making investigates the way in which social change takes place at a global scale. The volume brings together well-researched case studies of policy-making from across the world in a distinctive approach that bridges the local and global.

What is Europe? What are the contents of the concept of Europe? And what defines European identity? Instead of only asking these classical questions, this volume also explores who asks these questions, and who is addressed with such questions. Who answers the questions, from which standpoints and for what reasons? Which philosophical, historical, religious or political traditions influence the answers? This book addresses its task in three parts. The first concentrates on the controversies around the meaning of Europe. The second focuses on the role of the European Union. The third discusses Europe and its relations to different types of otherness, or rather, non-European-ness. The volume produces a complex and plural picture of the concepts, ideas, debates and (ex)changes associated with the concept of Europe, and has a clear significance for todayΓÇÖs debates on European identity, Europeanization, and the EU.

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening - and possibly overcoming - of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences.

This book focuses on processes of Europeanisation in the academic, bureaucratic, professional and associational field, and the increasingly European context of solidarity, networks and social inequalities.

Trade Unions under the Pressure of European Integration brings together pessimists and optimists on trade unionism under the contemporary pressures of European integration.

The Social Structures of Global Academia exposes readers to a variety of issues that are impacting academics across the globe. The volume includes contributions by leading social scientists and innovative research from emerging scholars.

Comparing parallel societies from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America, this book proposes fundamental transitions in sociological research from system to process and from communication to composition through intensive studies on examinations.

Youth and the Politics of the Present includes a wide range of empirical studies about young adults in different European contexts focusing on how they cope with the main transformations caused by the processes of globalization.