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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.

340 Series Titles


Lifestyle Shopping The Subject of Consumption

Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption

1st Edition

Edited By Rob Shields
September 24, 1992

First Published in 2004. In contemporary shopping sites new modes of subjectivity, inter-personal relationships and models of social totality are being tried on, taken off and displayed in much the same way that one might shop for clothes. These are not the modernist spaces of goal-directed ...

Professions and Patriarchy

Professions and Patriarchy

1st Edition

By Anne Witz
February 27, 1992

This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has ...

Global Finance and Urban Living A Study of Metropolitan Change

Global Finance and Urban Living: A Study of Metropolitan Change

1st Edition

Edited By Leslie Budd, Sam Whimster
February 13, 1992

This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis. It is the first authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organisation of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record ...

Sociology of Postmodernism

Sociology of Postmodernism

1st Edition

By Dr Scott Lash
June 14, 1990

This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important....

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