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 Eric A. Gutkind
July 26, 2013
This is Volume VIII of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1946, this study looks at the revolution of environment, the physical reshaping and the question of how can real world ‘unity’ be established. The world's open spaces have been taken up and its...
By John Saville
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This book aims to accommodate for the little attention paid to the needs of the people living in rural Britain. The author argues that there has hardly been an attempt to describe the impact of new machines and of new wage-levels on farm and village. The title sets out to ...
By Josephine Klein
October 21, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and includes part two of the Samples from English Cultures and looks at child rearing practices and shows how childhood, parental behaviour and socio-economic conditions related to each other, as well as adult ...
By George Victor
July 26, 2013
First Published in 1998. This book is concerned with the development of social security in the United Kingdom and is aimed mainly at social science students and social work students. References to the 1930's and earlier or to social security provisions in other countries are made with the sole ...
By A.F. Young
July 26, 2013
This is Volume XII of a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1968. The title Social Services in British Industry might seem a contradiction in terms. Industry is concerned with productive processes and the provision and exchange of goods and ...
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By Levin L. Schucking
November 04, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of a nine volume library of Sociology on the Sociology of Culture and includes a study on the sociology of literary taste. The idea underlying the book is that the concordance of liking evoked by certain works of art, called taste, is due to something ...
By R. N. Morris, John Mogey
July 26, 2013
This is Volume XIV of eighteen in a collection of works on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1964, this is a study of Berinsfield which was originally a rural slum known as Field Farm in Oxfordshire....
By Alphons Silbermann, Stewart Corbet
November 01, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and discusses how to approach the area of a sociology of music, looking at scope, definition, evaluation methods such as philosophical, idealist and aestheticism and then looking at socio-musical groups, their ...
By Robert E. Dickinson
May 15, 2013
This is Volume III of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1967. A basic feature of the life and organization of advanced societies is the cohesion of socio-geographic groups at various levels. There are many aspects to this field of study. For this work...
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By Frank Knight, Thornton W. Merriam
November 03, 2010
First Published in 1998. In this highly fragmented culture of ours books are needed to integrate fields of interest ordinarily considered separately, to state their common problems and to deal with their differences in the light of other criteria than the separate functions and local loyalties of ...
By Peter Nokes
July 26, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of an eighteen volume library of Sociology on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work and includes a study on the professional task in welfare practice. The book covers objectives of the welfare professions and gives guidance in this vocation, techniques,...
By Werner Stark
November 03, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V of eight in the Sociology of Religion series and includes part two which looks at the sociology of Sectarian Religion in Christendom, exploring the origin and social cause, nature, variety and decay of sects....