International Library of Sociology
About the Book Series
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.
New Dubliners Ils 172
1st Edition
By A.J. Humphreys
May 15, 2013
This is Volume V of thirteen of a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1966, this study looks at the kinship in Irish families, including their characteristic cultural patterns and effects of urbanization....
Organization and Bureaucracy
1st Edition
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 ...
Recruitment to Skilled Trades
1st Edition
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 ...
Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951
1st Edition
By John Saville
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This book aims to accommodate for the little attention paid to the needs of the people living in rural Britain. The author argues that there has hardly been an attempt to describe the impact of new machines and of new wage-levels on farm and village. The title sets out to ...
Studies Class Struct Ils 121
1st Edition
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, ...
The City Region in Western Europe
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
May 15, 2013
This is Volume III of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1967. A basic feature of the life and organization of advanced societies is the cohesion of socio-geographic groups at various levels. There are many aspects to this field of study. For this work...
The Family and Democractic Society
1st Edition
By Joseph K. Folsom
May 15, 2013
This is Volume IV of twenty-one in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1949, this is a development of the author's previous work that recommended action in the areas of 'social psychiatry' or 'individual adjustments'. The focus of the present volume is the ...
The People of Ship Street
1st Edition
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....
The Personality of the Urban African in South Africa
1st Edition
By C. de Ridder
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VI, of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. Written in 1953, this text is a thematic apperception test study which presents the results of some six years' research into the urban African personality as it has evolved in the major industrial ...
The Price of Social Security
1st Edition
By Gertrude Williams
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of XVIII in the Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work series. The title focuses on labour mobility and imperfect competition, experiments in increasing mobility and labour control both in wartime and more generally in Germany and Russia. Williams also ...
The Qualifying Associations
1st Edition
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 ...
The Shops of Britain: A Study of Retail Distribution
1st Edition
By Hermann Levy
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series and this book on The Shops of Britain follows the author's publication on Retail Trade Associations, a new form of monopolist organization in Britain. After the book had been completed, the ...