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.
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...
The Deprived and The Privileged: Personality Development in English Society
1st Edition
By B.M. Spinley
February 13, 2014
This Volume VII of twenty-one in a collection on Class, Race and Social Structure. First published in 1953, this text looks at personality development in English Society between the more deprived and the privileged members of society. It explores the psychological phenomenon of ‘Basic Personality ...
Tradition and Economy in Village India
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Ishwaran
February 13, 2014
First published in 1998. The efficacy of the modern village or community studies lies in their deriving better understandings of the structure and function of institutions. They perform this office of social science by analysing the living workings of institutions in the experience of human beings...
Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research
1st Edition
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By Valda Blundell, John Shepherd, Ian Taylor
November 27, 2013
Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides ...
Mobility, Space and Culture
1st Edition
By Peter Merriman
November 08, 2013
Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to ...
Values and Involvement in a Grammar School
1st Edition
By Ronald King
November 05, 2013
This is Volume XXVII of twenty eight in a series on the Sociology of Education. First published in 1969, this study is an investigation of the values and school involvement in a boy's maintained grammar school in London....
China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change
1st Edition
By Michael Keith, Scott Lash, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
October 02, 2013
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- ...