Böcker i Routledge Advances in Sociology-serien

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.

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.

In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.

This book reveals the contextual nature of the process through which civil society develops, presenting studies that analyse the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time, and developing a novel theoretical framework to shed new light on familiar questions pertaining to its boundaries and spaces of action.

Offers a reading of both globalization theory and contemporary European transformations. This book provides a critique for thinking about Europe in terms of Empire, and advances the startling claim that Europe should be considered 'postwestern'.

This volume critically examines the various dimensions of the flexicurity concept and its uses in both in academics and politics, outlining various alternative and innovative approaches towards conceptualizing and analyzing employment and social policy in contemporary European societies.

There are complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is limited and highly distorted. Exploring this issue in depth, this book analyzes British media reports of a research review dealing with ethnic inequalities in educational achievement. It covers education, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and social policy.

Taking a global and comparative perspective, this book addresses three important aspects of immigrant adaptation in multiethnic contexts: immigrant and racial/ethnic residential patterns, inter-group relations, and immigrant adaptation process, examing the topic at the city ecological level, inter-group level, and individual level.

Ageing, Diversity and Equality challenges and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, associated inequalities and their intersections.

Takes a look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. This book tells stories about past and present 'crises' of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts.

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The Reflexive Initiative is an authoritative intervention in the practice and tradition of reflexive social theory. It demonstrates the importance of the reflexive imperative, not only in the investigation of everyday life but across a wide range of human sciences and philosophical perspectives.