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.
Foster Care: Theory & Practice (ILS 130)
1st Edition
By V. George
June 03, 2014
First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series. This research was designed to explore primarily the relationship between theory and practice in foster care....
Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92)
1st Edition
By Ian Charles Jarvie
May 12, 2014
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and looks at the a comparative essay on the structure and functioning of a major entertainment industry: the cinema....
Visual Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By John R Hall, Blake Stimson, Lisa Tamiris Becker
April 09, 2014
As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the emergence of new tools and conventions. Exploring the social structure of visuality, this volume contains a collection of essays by ...
Theories of the Information Society
4th Edition
By Frank Webster
March 18, 2014
Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an ...
A History of Autobiography in Antiquity: Part 1
1st Edition
By Georg Misch
February 25, 2014
This is Volume IV of 9 historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part one of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the ...
A History of Autobiography in Antiquity
1st Edition
By Georg Misch
February 25, 2014
This is Volume V of nine historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part two of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of ...
Class American Socty Ils 103
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonard Reissman
February 25, 2014
This is Volume II of twenty-one in a collection of Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1960, this book is about the place of class and its synonyms, status, prestige, and power, in the structure of American society. A dominant theme of the book is that classes do exist even ...
Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
By Claire Valier
February 25, 2014
Today, questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture, Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular ...
Psychology in the Soviet Union Ils 272
1st Edition
By Brian Simon
February 25, 2014
This is a collection of papers created from a visit by teachers and educationalists to the U.S.S.R in April 1955 by invitation of Academy of Educational Sciences of the R.S.F.S.R. The aim of this volume is to familiarize English readers with the general direction of Soviet psychology, but designed ...
Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society
1st Edition
By K. L. Little
February 13, 2014
This is Volume XII in a series of twenty-one on Class, Race and Social Structure. Originally published in 1948, this volume offers a study of racial relations in English society, using language of the time....
Planned Organizn Chang Ils 158
1st Edition
By Garth N Jones
February 13, 2014
This is Volume IX of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a study of change dynamics and represents the author’s latest research and thinking on change....
Soviet Legal Theory Ils 273
1st Edition
By Rudolf Schlesinger
February 13, 2014
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Written in 1945, this is a a study about the social background and development of Soviet Legal theory and deals with Soviet conceptions of Law. Law in the USSR is not an isolated systems of values and...