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.
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 ...
The Sociology of Colonies [Part 2]: An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact
1st Edition
By Rene Maunier
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is part II of the sociology of colonies, and Volume XVIII of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series. Written ten years after part one, in the language in the 1941, this part provides an introduction to the study of the conflict of manners and ...
The Sociology of an English Village: Gosforth
1st Edition
By W. M. Williams
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XI of thirteen in a collection on the Urban and Regional Sociology. Initially published in 1956, the subject of this work is Gosforth in the North West with its long history and because it contained both a village and scattered farms. The field-work took place between July 1950 and ...
The Sociology of the Colonies [Part 1]: An Introduction to the Study of Race Contact
1st Edition
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...
Work & Leisure Ils 166
1st Edition
By Nels Anderson
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. This study on work and leisure looks at present materials that point to the fields of study of non-work obligations, family and home leisure centredness, declining worker interest in the job...
Workers, Unions and the State
1st Edition
By Graham Wootton
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XV of the eighteen in the Sociology of Work and Organization series. This book provides a discussion of when and why workers turn into unionists, the view of industrial responsibility and civic virtue initially written in 1965....