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 Golden Wing: A Sociological Study of Chinese Familism
1st Edition
By Yueh-Hwa Lin
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume X of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series and offers a sociological study of Chinese familism. The Golden Wing written in 1948 is a sociological study written in the form of a novel. Its theme is refreshingly simple in conception but ...
Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
1st Edition
By Viola Klein, Alva Myrdal
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume XV of fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family Series. Originally published in 1956, this study looks at the two roles of women of in the workplace and at home with the aim of looking at social reforms needed for the to reconcile family and a ...
Young Men in Detention Centres Ils 213
1st Edition
By Karl Mannheim
November 09, 2011
First published in 1998. One of the most characteristic patterns of recent English penal policy is the rapid spread of detention centres. Any new development of this kind makes it necessary to examine the possible effects of the new measures and to test by reliable methods of criminological ...
Helvetius: His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought
1st Edition
By Ian Cumming
March 11, 2011
Published in 1998, Helvetius is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy....
Key Problems of Sociological Theory
1st Edition
By John Rex
February 04, 2011
This is Volume of VII twenty-two on a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1961, this book was written because of the author’s sense of the inadequacies of a sociological tradition dominated by empiricism and positivism. The tradition of empiricism leads to attempts to ...
Marx His Times and Ours
1st Edition
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....
Montesquieu: Pioneer of the Sociology of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Werner Stark
February 04, 2011
First published in 1998. This is Volume X of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1960, this focuses on Baron de Montesquieu the pioneer of the Sociology of Knowledge and the author’s wish to correct the widespread conviction that the sociology of ...
The Japanese Village Ils 56
1st Edition
By J.F. Embree
February 04, 2011
This is Volume V of six in a collection on the Sociology of East Asia. Initially published in 1946, Dr. Embree's book is a description, based on direct observation, of the life of a Japanese village community. Its chief purpose is to provide material for that comparative study' of the forms of: ...
The Logic of Social Enquiry
1st Edition
By Quentin Gibson
February 04, 2011
This comprehensive set introduces the fundamental principles of Sociology as propounded by such great figures as Gerth and Mills, Schlesinger, and Homans. Containing classic works of social theory and empirical research, volumes in this set bring together the British, European and American ...
Aeromobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry
January 24, 2011
Aeromobilities is a collection of essays that tackle in many different ways the growing importance of aviation and air travel in our hypermobile, globalized world. Providing a multidisciplinary focus on issues ranging from global airports to the production of airspace, from airline work to ...
Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Rudolf Schlesinger
November 09, 2010
First Published in 1998. Federalism became highly fashionable among all kind of blue-printers, those who believed in the capacity of constitutional forms to solve all the fundamental issues of social life, as well as those who were on the look-out for new descriptions for rather old-fashioned ...
Pacifism
1st Edition
By David A. Martin
November 09, 2010
First published in 1998. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with expounding a broad framework and with illustrating it from a wide variety of historical examples. The second part narrows the focus to modern Britain, largely in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ...