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 Karl Renner, Otto Kahn-Freund, A. Schwarzschild
June 03, 2013
As relevant to today's debates about law and order and punishment as when they were published, titles in this set put forward the central principle that it is impossible to think about contemporary problems without thinking about society. Covering topics such as youth crime, legal aid, youth ...
By Claire Grant
May 13, 2013
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular ...
By Rudolf Schlesinger
February 04, 2011
Published in 1998, Marx His Time and Ours is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy....
By Colin Bell
May 03, 2013
As increased access to employment and educational opportunities brought dramatic changes to women's lives, sociologists began to look at the effect of women's changing roles on their children and families. Based on empirical investigations and personal experience, the studies included in The ...
By Kate Liepmann
May 03, 2013
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By Josephine Klein
May 03, 2013
In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialisation, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time. Titles in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology set of the International Library of Sociology ...
By Ian Cumming
March 11, 2011
Published in 1998, Helvetius is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy....
By Nils Lindahl Elliot
November 01, 2006
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining nature in the mass media. Where much of the existing research treats mass mediation...
By Tadesuz Grygier
November 04, 2010
Published in 1998, Oppression is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy....
By William Kornhauser
November 03, 2010
The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order, and who...
By George Caspar Homans
November 02, 2010
Published in 1998, Sentiments and Activities is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy....
By Douglas V. Verney
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, The Analysis of Political Systems is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....