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 Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013
This is Volume II of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part two of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the ...
By Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013
This is Volume I of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part one of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the ...
By Manuel Lopez-Rey
July 26, 2013
This is Volume III of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1970, this study analyses crime and touches on areas of the extent, as a social problem, the expansion and distribution of crime and a theory on juvenile delinquency....
By Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013
This is Volume V of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology series. Originally published in 1946, readers of the present volume will be aware of the links existing, for instance, between certain chapters of the author’s previous work ‘Social Aspects’, especially those on Business ...
By Richard A. Cloward, L.E. Ohlin
December 08, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume VI of the twelve in the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence series and focuses on delinquent subcultures and theories around masculine identification, adolescence and lower-class culture, alienation and illegitimate means. This study is an attempt to explore ...
By Samuel, R. H. and Thomas R. Hinton
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Written in 1948, this book gives a concise and critical assessment of education in modern Germany. The authors have concentrated on those most integrally bound up with the significant trends in German...
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By FOSTER P
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. As the first of the newly independent nations of Africa, Ghana has received fulsome attention from scholars in many fields. In this intensive case study on educational development by two principal considerations. The documentary materials relating to the earlier history of ...
By D.G. Pritchard
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. During the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth the children now known as disabled or with accessibility needs were termed physically defective and mentally defective; the schools that they ...
By H.C. Dent
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume X of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series and presents a sociological study of the impact of war on English education from 1939 to 1943. Initially written in 1944. The relationship between the educational system of the social order is being ...
By W.A.L. Blyth
July 26, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is part one of a study looking at primary schools from a sociological descriptive view kickstarted by the 1963 review of primary education and its transition into secondary education, by the ...
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By A. Weber
November 04, 2010
First published in 1998. This is Volume III of nine in the historical sociology series focusing on the idea of a farewell to European history or the conquest of nihilism. It was written during the last phase of the war when it was clear that the war was turning into an event that would ...
By S. N. Eisenstadt
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series and explores age groups and social structure from generation to generation. The purpose of this book is to analyze the various social phenomena known as age groups, youth movements, etc., and ...