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 Hall & Howes
November 01, 2010
This is Volume I in a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1965, this is a study of moral welfare work undertaken by the Church of England....
By Robert E Dickinson
February 28, 2013
This is Volume II of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1964. This book, like its predecessor in this series (City Region and Regionalism, 1947), is not about planning. It is concerned with the inherent geographical structure of society upon which planning...
By E.A. Gutkind
September 25, 2013
This is Volume II in a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1998, part one of creative demobilisation looks at the principles of national planning. The book attempts to lay down principles of planning on a national scale. It is not concerned with ...
By E.A. Gutkind
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. The following memoranda deal with some selected case studies of national planning and express the personal opinions of their authors. They should be considered as an essential interpretation or illustration of the approach to national planning. This title considers human ...
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By Ralph Linton
November 03, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume I of a nine volume library of Sociology on the Sociology of Culture and includes a study on the cultural background of personaility borne from five lectures given in 1943....
By H. E. Bracey
November 24, 2011
This is Volume IV of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1959, it focuses on the village activities, organisation and institutions of English rural life, providing a background of the history of land tenure, the growth of settlements and the development of ...
By R. K. Kelsall
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume IV of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Stemming from an original study on social mobility, this book looks at Britain’s higher civil servants from 1870 to 1955 who are mainly sourced from the ...
By Peter G Hollowell
May 15, 2013
This is Volume V of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a study in occupational sociology and looks at status and role of the lorry driver, and the consequences of industrial structure provided by the analysis of the observed behaviour ...
By Kathleen Jones
September 25, 2013
This is Volume II of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1955, this study presents the social history of the care of the insane from 1744 to 1845....
By A.J. Humphreys
May 15, 2013
This is Volume V of thirteen of a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1966, this study looks at the kinship in Irish families, including their characteristic cultural patterns and effects of urbanization....
By A. Briggs, E. Meyer, David Thomson
November 09, 2010
This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a series on Political Sociology. Originally published in 1945, this books makes a systematic survey and analysis, as objective as possible, of the tendencies most likely to govern peace-making. The authors intended to avoid making any specific recommendations of ...
By Pauline Morris
June 03, 2013
This is Volume VI in a series of seven on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1969, and using language of the time, this is a sociological study of institutions and hospitals for those with mental health conditions....