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.
Samples from English Cultures
1st Edition
By Josephine Klein
October 21, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and includes part two of the Samples from English Cultures and looks at child rearing practices and shows how childhood, parental behaviour and socio-economic conditions related to each other, as well as adult ...
Sigmund Freud - An Introduction
1st Edition
By Walter Hollitscher
October 21, 2010
This is Volume XII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1947 this includes a presentation of Sigmund Freud’s Theory, and a discussion of the relationship between psycho-analysis and sociology....
Towards a Measure of Man: The Frontiers of Normal Adjustment
1st Edition
By Paul Halmos
October 21, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVIII, the final of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. Initially written in 1957, this book deals centrally with the concepts of 'normal' and 'abnormal' in human personality and behaviour. It seeks to establish whether one or the ...
The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance
1st Edition
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
September 10, 2010
Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places. Simultaneously, Hollywood screening of potential 'tourist paradises' has generated new tourist ...
Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures
1st Edition
By Peter Frank Peters
September 10, 2010
In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization within these disciplines. By analyzing historic ...
Haunting the Knowledge Economy
1st Edition
By Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey, Simon Robb
August 18, 2010
This highly original book provides an engaging and critical introduction to the knowledge economy. The knowledge economy is a potent force pervading global and national policy circles. Yet few people outside the field of economics understand its central ideas and practices. This book makes these ...
Mobile Lives
1st Edition
By Anthony Elliott, John Urry
July 09, 2010
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and ...
Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa
1st Edition
By Anthony D'Andrea
July 14, 2009
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice and international tourism in ...
Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multicultures and Belongings After 7/7
1st Edition
By Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
February 27, 2009
Urban Fears and Global Terrors After 7/7 explores the disruption around that day, taking people back to the events and the sense of loss, fear and mourning that followed. By framing a new landscape of urban fear Victor Seidler shows how new technologies helped to shape responses to a global terror ...
Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society
1st Edition
By Adrian C. Mayer
October 10, 2008
This is Volume I of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1960,this is a book about caste in a village of Central India and its surrounding region....
Homo Ludens ILS 86
1st Edition
By Huizinga
October 10, 2008
This is Volume III of nine in series on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1949, this is a study of the play-element in culture and is translated from the German edition....
Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation
1st Edition
By Anne-Marie Fortier
April 02, 2008
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of...