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.
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 ...
Middle Class Families
1st Edition
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 ...
Peasants in the Pacific: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society
1st Edition
By Adrian C Mayer
May 03, 2013
This is Volume X of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1961 this is the second edition of a study of Fiji Indian Rural Society, looking at the areas of Vunioki and Delanikoro and Namboulima....
Populatn Soc Arab East Ils 68
1st Edition
By Gabriel Baer
May 03, 2013
This is Volume XI of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1964 the book is based on lectures were conceived as an introduction to the study of modem Middle Eastern history, economy, or politics; their aim was to present the main facts of population ...
Process Of Independence Ils 51
1st Edition
By Fatma Mansur
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is the final volume of eighteen in the political sociology series. Using past fairly well-equipped accounts of the acquisition of independence by former colonial countries, the author seeks to fill the gap of comparative studies which endeavour to find the elements ...
Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa
1st Edition
By Robert Chambers
May 03, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen in the Sociology of Development series. Originally published in 1969, this book is a study of organizations and development of two rural development projects by the author whilst working in the Administration in Kenya: a grazing control ...
Social Control in an African Society
1st Edition
By P.H. Gulliver
May 03, 2013
This is Volume XV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the Arusha people, the Agricultural Masai of Northern Tanganyika in Africa....