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 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 ...
Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries
1st Edition
By David Morley, Kevin Robins
August 16, 1995
We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite ...
Consuming Places
1st Edition
By JOHN Urry
March 28, 1995
John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the ...
Confronting Rape: The Feminist Anti-Rape Movement and the State
1st Edition
By Nancy A. Matthews
September 22, 1994
Public thinking about sexual assault over the last two decades has changed dramatically for the better. Activists in rape crisis centers can claim a feminist success story, but not always as they would choose. Through her study of six rape crisis centers in Los Angeles, Nancy Matthews shows how the...
Cultural Rights: Technology, Legality and Personality
1st Edition
By Celia Lury
June 25, 1993
Cultural Rights aims to combine sociology of culture and cultural studies approaches to provide an innovative interpretation of contemporary culture. It develops Walter Benjamin's arguments on the effects of mechanical reproduction by seeing what has happened to originality and authenticity in ...
Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity
1st Edition
By Rob Shields
November 10, 1992
The debate on modernity and postmodernity has awakened interest in the importance of the spatial for cultural formations. But what of those spaces that exist as much in the imagination as in physical reality? This book attempts to develop an alternative geography and sociology of space by examining...