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 Julius Issac
November 03, 2010
First published in 1998. This is Volume III of eleven in the Economics and Society series. Written in 1947, the main object of this study is to examine the causes and effects of the great international migrations which have taken place during the last hundred years....
By Harry W. Laidler
November 03, 2010
This is Volume IX of eighteen in a collection on Political Sociology. Originally published in 1969, History of Socialism and presents a historical comparative study of Socialism, Communism, Trade Unionism, Cooperation, Utopianism, and other systems of reform and reconstruction....
By Fedor Belov
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is volume IV of VIII in the international library of sociology based on the sociology of the Soviet Union. The author’s account of the life on the collective farm is based mainly on the diaries which he was able to bring with him out of the Soviet Union. The diaries ...
By I.C. Jarvie
May 03, 2013
This is Volume IV in a series of six on the Sociology of East Asia. Originally published in 1969, the aim was to fill the lack of sociological studies of Hong Kong at the time....
By Mark Benney, E.P. Gray, R.H. Pear
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This volume is an investigation of the Electoral Behaviour in Greenwich in order to consider how people vote and their political behaviour. It focuses on the General Election which took place in February 1950. The method of inquiry involved sample interviews being made in ...
By Kathleen Jones, Roy Sidebotham
June 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume IV, of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. Written in 1962, this study looks at of what mental hospitals actually do, what problems they face, how they use their resources, and how their efficiency can be assessed. We begin in Part I by briefly ...
By Werner Stark
February 04, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume X of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1960, this focuses on Baron de Montesquieu the pioneer of the Sociology of Knowledge and the author’s wish to correct the widespread conviction that the sociology of ...
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By Josephine Klein
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XIV out of fifteen on a series of the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1945, this study shows the Swedish Experiment in democratic family and population policy....
By David A. Martin
November 09, 2010
First published in 1998. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with expounding a broad framework and with illustrating it from a wide variety of historical examples. The second part narrows the focus to modern Britain, largely in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ...
By H.A. Hodges
November 09, 2010
First published in 1998.This is Volume VIII of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1952, this book looks at the concepts behind the German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, whose ideas extend into several fields of learning, of which philosophy is only one. ...
By Sydney H. Coontz
November 01, 2010
First published in 1998. The work is divided into two parts provides the reader with the various hypotheses used to explain population dynamics: Part I contains a review and appraisal of population theories since Malthus. Part II presents a theoretical framework for the economic analysis of ...
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By Harold D. Lasswell
November 03, 2010
First published in 1998. The present book is a by-product of the Research Project on Wartime Communication which was organized within the framework of the Library of Congress shortly before World War II. As a guide to research and analysis, it was necessary to review the then current state of ...