The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and the identification of new directions in sociology, publishing major figures in Anglo-American and European sociology, from Durkheim and Weber to Parsons and Gouldner, and from Ossowski and Klein to Jasanoff and Walby.
Its new editors, John Holmwood (University of Nottingham, UK) and Vineeta Sinha (National University of Singapore), plan to develop the series as a truly global project, reflecting new directions and contributions outside its traditional centres, and connecting with the original aim of the series to produce sociological knowledge that addresses pressing global social problems and supports democratic debate.
By Werner Stark
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt1: Est Relg IIs 79 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
By Werner Stark
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt3: Uni Chur IIs 81 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
By W H Bruford
November 04, 2010
Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt5: Typ Rel IIs 83 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology....
By Noel Timms
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This volume is IX in the international library of sociology collection and focuses on social casework principles and practice. The text attempts to describe some of the main problems facing caseworkers as they both try to help their clients and to theorize about their ...
By H Jennings
November 04, 2010
Published in 1998, Societies In Making IIs 89 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
By Harry M. Johnson
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. Part of the International library of Sociology, volume XVI of twenty-two on Social theory and methodology, focuses on giving the reader a systematic introduction to Sociology in the form of a manual of instruction which brings together hundreds of resources....
By I.C. Jarvie
November 03, 2010
Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper's radical view of the nature of science, he argues that the subject is one of the oldest and most fundamental of all studies and suggests it can easily be ...
By Viola Klein, Alva Myrdal
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume XV of fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family Series. Originally published in 1956, this study looks at the two roles of women of in the workplace and at home with the aim of looking at social reforms needed for the to reconcile family and a ...
By Karl Mannheim
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. One of the most characteristic patterns of recent English penal policy is the rapid spread of detention centres. Any new development of this kind makes it necessary to examine the possible effects of the new measures and to test by reliable methods of criminological ...
By Michael Keith, Scott Lash, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
October 02, 2013
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- ...
By Wsevolod W. Isajiw
November 02, 2010
This is Volume I of twenty-two in the Social Theory and Methodology series. First published in 1968 this text looks at an analysis of functionalism by means of the notion of causality. It is a study of functionalism, yet also an explication of the notion of causality through its application to a ...
By Frances Rust
November 04, 2010
This is Volume II of nine in a collection on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1969 this is an analysis of the relationship between the social dance and society in England from the Middle Ages to the 1960s....