Atoms, Bytes and Genes

Martin W Bauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology | nr. 126
• "Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Res... Lees meer

Creating a Shared Moral Community

Judy Shuttleworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• This book explores the religious, educational, and social practice of a Muslim congregation and the moral world it generated within a mosque in UK. Th... Lees meer

The Politics of Europeanisation

Nazlı Kazanoğlu

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• With the dramatic changes in the extent to which women and men contribute to unpaid domestic work and paid employment, work and family life reconcilia... Lees meer

Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology | nr. 44
• The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention ... Lees meer

Housing and Domestic Abuse

Yoric Irving-Clarke, Kelly Henderson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Housing and Domestic Abuse provides an analysis of how housing policy has been historically utilised in responding to domestic abuse. The authors trac... Lees meer

Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages

David C Kraemer

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• This book explores the history of Jewish eating and Jewish identity, from the Bible to the present. The lessons of this book rest squarely on the much... Lees meer

Europe in Love

Juan Díez Medrano

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Inter-marriage both reflects and brings social change. This book draws on a unique survey of randomly selected samples of national and European binati... Lees meer

Investments in a Sustainable Workforce in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age. Flexibility and job insecurity are omnipresent; organiza... Lees meer

The Cultural Significance of the Child Star

Jane Catherine O'Connor

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• The child star is an iconic figure in Western society representing a growing cultural trend which idolises, castigates and fetishises the image of the... Lees meer

Language, Identity and Conflict

Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

• Paperback | Engels | 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 li... Lees meer

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Eduardo de la Fuente

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology | nr. 54
• In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge ... Lees meer

Transnational Students and Mobility

Hannah Soong

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginarie... Lees meer

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

Gurpinder Singh Lalli

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK.... Lees meer

Interpreting Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Written by an international group of leading social science scholars in the field of human rights, this new volume situates the study of human rights ... Lees meer

Globalization, Uncertainty and Youth in Society

• Paperback | Engels | 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 col... Lees meer

Cities of Culture

Deborah Stevenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology | nr. 111
• With reference to examples drawn from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, and utilizing an innovative framework that combines the methods and i... Lees meer

Social Movements in Violently Divided Societies

John Nagle

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Violently divided societies present major challenges to institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by ethnic conflict and high le... Lees meer

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

Peter J Hutchings

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology | nr. 2
• This book traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth c... Lees meer

The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors

Tim Delaney

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought a... Lees meer

A Companion to Life Course Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change... Lees meer

Liberalism 2.0 and the Rise of China

David Tyfield

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• What can we do in this period of historic, global turbulence? Mainstream narratives have no plausible account of how to stop exacerbating the multiple... Lees meer

Retail and the Artifice of Social Change

Steven Miles

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual g... Lees meer

Heritage in the Digital Era

Rodanthi Tzanelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? 'Heritage' usually involves intergenerational transmission of id... Lees meer

Anxiety in Middle-Class America

Valérie de Courville Nicol

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America... Lees meer