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.
Politics of Mass Society
1st Edition
By William Kornhauser
November 03, 2010
The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order, and who...
Power & Society Ils 50
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold D. Lasswell
November 03, 2010
First published in 1998. The present book is a by-product of the Research Project on Wartime Communication which was organized within the framework of the Library of Congress shortly before World War II. As a guide to research and analysis, it was necessary to review the then current state of ...
Religious Behaviour
1st Edition
By Michael Argyle
November 03, 2010
No study of religious practice ancient or modern is complete without reference to the work of sociologists on religious practice. The volumes in The Sociology of Religion set of the International Library of Sociology explore the social, economic and behavioural contexts of religious activity....
Revolution in a Chinese Village: Ten Mile Inn
1st Edition
By David Crook, Isabel Crook
November 03, 2010
First published in 2002. An in-depth study of land reform in one Chinese village, the authors were accepted as comrades in Party life and studies in post-war rural China....
Shivapur:South Ind Vill Ils 71
1st Edition
By K. Ishwaran
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, Shivapur: South Ind Vill LLs 71 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
Soc Relign Pt1:Est Relg Ils 79
1st Edition
By Werner Stark
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt1: Est Relg IIs 79 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
Soc Relign Pt3:Uni Chur Ils 81
1st Edition
By Werner Stark
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt3: Uni Chur IIs 81 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
The Analysis of Political Systems
1st Edition
By Douglas V. Verney
November 03, 2010
Published in 1998, The Analysis of Political Systems is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy....
The Decline of Liberalism as an Ideology
1st Edition
By John H. Hallowell
November 03, 2010
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
The Economic Order and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Knight, Thornton W. Merriam
November 03, 2010
First Published in 1998. In this highly fragmented culture of ours books are needed to integrate fields of interest ordinarily considered separately, to state their common problems and to deal with their differences in the light of other criteria than the separate functions and local loyalties of ...
The Revolution in Anthropology Ils 69
1st Edition
By I.C. Jarvie
November 03, 2010
Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper's radical view of the nature of science, he argues that the subject is one of the oldest and most fundamental of all studies and suggests it can easily be ...
The Sociology of Knowledge: An Essay in Aid of a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas
1st Edition
By Stark F. Werner
November 03, 2010
This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a collection on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1958, this book presents an essay in aid of a deeper understanding of the history of ideas....