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.
Working Class Comm Ils 122
1st Edition
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 ...
Working with Unattached Youth
1st Edition
By George W. Goetschius, M. Joan Tash
May 15, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XI of the twelve in the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence series which outlines the problem, approach, and method around a the report of an enquiry into the ways and means of contacting and working with unattached young people in an inner London Borough. The...
Youth & Social Order Ils 149
1st Edition
Edited
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....
Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
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 ...
A Introduction to Teaching Casework Skills
1st Edition
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 ...
British Social Work in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By E.T. Ashton, A.F. Young
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. An examination of the main branches of social work in Great Britain and their development from their confused beginnings to the state they reached by the nineteenth century. Also discussed are the material changes in the conditions of life that took place in the century, ...
Central European Democracy and its Background: Economic and Political Group Organizations
1st Edition
By Rudolf Schlesinger
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is volume IV of the library of Sociology 18 volume series on Political Sociology. This book is concerned with a particular type of social organisation and a particular stage in the development of certain countries, in central Europe....
Dictatorship and Political Police: The Technique of Control by Fear
1st Edition
By E.K. Bramstedt
May 03, 2013
First Published in 1998. Initially written in the period between 1942 and 44, with additional notes in the appendices of 1945, this volume looks at the areas of the secret Police, the secret control as developed by Fascism and National Socialism as laid on the Third Reich and the relationship ...
Educ & Soc Change Ghana Ils 60
1st Edition
Edited
By FOSTER P
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. As the first of the newly independent nations of Africa, Ghana has received fulsome attention from scholars in many fields. In this intensive case study on educational development by two principal considerations. The documentary materials relating to the earlier history of ...
Growing Up in an Egyptian Village
1st Edition
By H.M. Ammar
May 03, 2013
This is Volume IV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1954, this text stems from years of field work in the village in Silwa, Province of Aswan, Egypt which has a homogenous social structure and economic life. Although quite isolated geographically it ...
Hong Kong: A Society in Transition
1st Edition
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....
How People Vote: A Study of Electoral Behaviour in Greenwich
1st Edition
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 ...