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 Sociology of Mental Health
1st Edition
By Kathleen Jones, S Clement Brown, M Ashdown, Roy Sidebotham
March 15, 1998
Books in this set consider the implications for society, and how society should respond to mental health issues. This comprehensive set covers not only the history of mental health care and institutions, but also the development of psychiatric social work and mental health policy. 'Mental Health ...
Urban and Regional Sociology
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
March 15, 1998
Increased economic opportunities, population pressure and decline, transportation facilities, rapid growth of cities, the decline of rural communities, all have widely felt social consequences. Books in this set consider the causes and consequences of these social phenomena in various international...
The Danube Basin and the German Economic Sphere
1st Edition
By Antonin Basch
January 29, 1998
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
The Sociology of Culture
1st Edition
By Ralph Linton, Levin L. Schucking
January 29, 1998
The sociology of culture seeks to locate the world of the arts within the broader context of the institutions and ideology of society. This wide-ranging set covers the sociology of dance, literary taste and cinema. Taking into account also the cultural context of play and child-rearing, this is ...
The Sociology of Religion
1st Edition
By Andrew Wyatt
January 29, 1998
No study of religious practice, ancient or modern, is complete without reference to the work of sociologists on religious practice. This set explores the social, economic and behavioural contexts of religious activity. It includes volumes by key anthropologist Werner Stark and economist Frank ...
The Sociology of Youth and Adolescence
1st Edition
By E. M. Eppel, Lloyd E. Ohlin, Elizabeth Richardson, C. M. Fleming, M. Joan Tash, Julius Carlebach, Jean Kastell, Jean S. Heywood
January 29, 1998
These ground-breaking works led the way to an authoritative understanding of how social interaction moulded young people. Careful observation of vulnerable and troubled children helped the leading sociologists, whose works are included here, to investigate how aggression, discipline, the struggle ...
Prosthetic Culture
1st Edition
By Celia Lury
January 15, 1998
In a fascinating account of how technology is altering our consciousness, Celia Lury shows how the manipulation of photographic images and ways of seeing can so redefine the relation between consciousness, the body and memory as to create a 'prosthetic culture' whose capacities both extend and ...
Gender Transformations
1st Edition
By Sylvia Walby
October 29, 1997
The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for women in Europe and America have been accompanid by new forms of inequality. She charts changes in women's employment...
The Badlands of Modernity: Heterotopia and Social Ordering
1st Edition
By Kevin Hetherington
September 17, 1997
The Badlands of Modernity offers a wide ranging and original interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces. Drawing on Foucault's analysis of heterotopia, or spaces of alternate ordering, the book argues that ...
Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer
1st Edition
By Jackie Stacey
August 19, 1997
Stories of cancer are full of monster and marvels; the monstrousness of the disease and the treatments, the marvels of the cures and the saved lives. Still one of the most dreaded diseases to haunt our imaginations, cancer is more than an illness - it is a cultural phenomenon. People who have ...
Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation
1st Edition
By Andrew Leyshon, Nigel Thrift
February 11, 1997
Bringing together in one volume the most important writings of Andrew Leyshon and Nigel Thrift on money and finance, including the unpublished classic "Sexy-Greedy" this collection examines the economic, social and cultural manifestations that go to make up the multiple vision of money. Money, it ...
Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour
1st Edition
By Peter Dickens
August 13, 1996
One of the main features of the contemporary environmental crisis is that no one has a clear idea of what is going on. The author uses an extension of Marx's theory of alienation to explain why people find it so difficult to relate their different knowledges of the natural and social world. He ...