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 Michael Polanyi
November 09, 2010
This is Volume XI of eighteen in the Political Sociology Series and looks at the rejections and rejoinders of the logic of liberty, originally published in 1951....
By Raymond T. Smith
May 03, 2013
This is Volume IX of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1956 and using language of the time, this monologue looks at the family system in Guianese families....
By Madeline Kerr
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XVI of Twenty-one in the Class, Race and Social Structure Series. Originally published in 1958, this study looks at the lives of a group of people in a Liverpool slum. Ship Street is a pseudonym as the descriptions in the text are from field work....
By Geoffrey Millerson
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1964, this study looks at one important aspect of professionalism, the way to professional status through organization. It describes the Qualifying Association, a type of organization which ...
By Rene Maunier
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is part I of the sociology of colonies, and Volume XVII of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series. Written in the language in the 1932, this part provides an introduction to the study of race contact, and the social problems involved in expansion...
By Ian Hogbin
November 03, 2010
This is Volume XVIII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1951, this is a book about the changing culture of a New Guinea village....
By Brian Jackson
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XXI, the final of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series and takes as its subject the general notions raised by a series of studies of working class communities in Yorkshire in Northern England. This book is an attempt to exemplify why ...
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By E. Musgrove
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XII of twelve in a series on the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence. First published in 1964, it focuses on the status of youth, its determinants and consequences, as is an inter-disciplinary study....
By Jackie Stacey
August 19, 1997
Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. People who have ...
By Lionel W. Fox
June 03, 2013
This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1952, this is an account of the prison and Borstal systems in England and Wales after the Criminal Justice Act 1948, with a historical introduction and an examination of the principles of ...
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By Martin C. Yang
November 03, 2010
This is Volume I of six in a collection on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1948, this study looks at the village of Taitou in the Shantung Province....
By Jean S. Heywood
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VI of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1964, this is seen as the first study on the teaching of casework skill to be published in this country. conveys vividly the accepted precepts and principles of casework ...