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 R.R. Dale
July 26, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XV of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is a study with special reference to university entrance written in 1949 which started as an enquiry into the performance of a group of university scholarship holders in their First-Year ...
By Howard Paul Becker
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XIII of twelve in the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence series. Originally published in 1946, this exploratory study looks at the post-war Germany and the effects and future of its Youth and younger population....
By Hermann Mannheim
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of the fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology series. This is a collection of mainly previously published periodicals, articles, reports or reviews on group problems in crime and punishment. The material has throughout been revised in 1955 and ...
By H.E. Bracey
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XII of twenty-one in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1966, this study on retirement looks at pensioners in Great Britain and the United States....
By J. E. T. Eldridge
May 15, 2013
This is Volume II of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a collection of essays in the sociology of industrial relations which in Britain since the Second World War, and more particularly in the 1960s, have come to be socially defined as...
By Hermann Mannheim
June 03, 2013
This is Volume XI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. First published in 1948, the local enquiry which forms the backbone of the present book may be regarded as a sequel to two other investigations: to the Home Office Enquiry into Juvenile Delinquency, undertaken at the...
By Stanislaw Andrzejewski
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume Vi of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. The author of the present book belongs to the sociological tradition that, starting from Montesquieu, includes such thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The idea ...
By Howard Bracey
May 15, 2013
This Volume XIII of twenty-one in a collection on Class, Race and Social Structure. First published in 1964, this text looks neighbour behaviour of new estates and subdivisions in England and U.S.A. The study derives from a survey begun on new housing estates near Bristol, England, in 1957 and ...
By Nicos P. Mouzelis
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series and offers an analysis of modern theories in relation to organisation and bureaucracy. The present study tries to provide some guidance which may help students to orient themselves with ...
By Olive Banks
July 26, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XVIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This study looks at the parity and prestige factors in English secondary school education and initially written in 1955. It looks at the desired aim of the secondary school as ensuring that every ...
By Adrian C Mayer
May 03, 2013
This is Volume X of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1961 this is the second edition of a study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, looking at the areas of Vunioki and Delanikoro and Namboulima....
By Terence Morris, Pauline Morris
June 03, 2013
This is Volume XIII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1963, this is a sociological Study of an English Prison....