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.
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...
Sociology Through the Projector
1st Edition
By Bulent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
April 02, 2008
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for ...
Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience
1st Edition
By Michael Bull
January 30, 2008
This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication. Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not ...
Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect
1st Edition
By Nigel Thrift
September 18, 2007
This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on ...
The Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology
1st Edition
By Neil J Smelser
July 20, 2007
In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialization, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time. Titles in this set analyze how behaviour is formed and learned. The set contains such classic works as...
The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation
1st Edition
By Elton Mayo
May 12, 2007
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of eleven of the Economic and Society series. Including an appendix on the political problem, this book includes the thoughts of Elton Mayo, seen initially as a modern social thinker who challenges the basic assumptions of the practical world of industry...