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 Gabriel Baer
May 03, 2013
This is Volume XI of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1964 the book is based on lectures were conceived as an introduction to the study of modem Middle Eastern history, economy, or politics; their aim was to present the main facts of population ...
By Fatma Mansur
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is the final volume of eighteen in the political sociology series. Using past fairly well-equipped accounts of the acquisition of independence by former colonial countries, the author seeks to fill the gap of comparative studies which endeavour to find the elements ...
By Gertrude Williams
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1957, this is a study looks at the changes in the recruitment into skilled work after the beginning of the nineteenth century when the usual method of entry to trade and industry in general ...
By Robert Chambers
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen in the Sociology of Development series. Originally published in 1969, this book is a study of organizations and development of two rural development projects by the author whilst working in the Administration in Kenya: a grazing control ...
By Raymond Morris
July 26, 2013
This is Volume XXI of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education Series. Originally published in 1969, since the war, and especially over the last decade, everyday interest in higher education has been increasing rapidly. Public interest has pinpointed a variety of practical problems implicit in ...
By P.H. Gulliver
May 03, 2013
This is Volume XV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the Arusha people, the Agricultural Masai of Northern Tanganyika in Africa....
By Marc Ancel, Leon Radzinowicz
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This book is concerned with a modern approach to criminal problems, written in 1965 by Marc Ancel, who combines a scientific and academic carrer with that of Judge of the Supreme Court of France....
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By Alfred W. Von Martin
November 04, 2010
First published in 1998. This is the ninth volume of Historical Sociology and contains an extended essay on the Renaissance of Sociology which was originally written in response to write articles on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Alfred Vierkandt for his Handwortenbuch der Soziologie. As a ...
By G. D.H. Cole
May 15, 2013
This Volume XX of twenty-one in a collection on Class, Race and Social Structure. First published in 1955, the six studies included are concerned with class structure. They describe or analyse the class composition of Great Britain and of other Western Societies from a variety of points of view, ...
By Professor Terence Morris, Terence Morris
July 26, 2013
This is Volume IV of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series. Originally published in 1957 this study looks at social ecology and offer a clear exposition of the merits as well as the limitations of the ecological interpretation of crime and juvenile delinquency and, more ...
By Erica Stratta
June 03, 2013
This is Volume VI of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series. Originally published in 1957 this study looks at the educational experiences prior to, and during, Borstal training. The idea that education, or rather the lack of it, is a contributory factor in the crime of the young is ...
By Yueh-Hwa Lin
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume X of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series and offers a sociological study of Chinese familism. The Golden Wing written in 1948 is a sociological study written in the form of a novel. Its theme is refreshingly simple in conception but ...