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 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
Edited
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- ...
Adopted Children Ils 123
1st Edition
By Alexina M McWhinnie
September 25, 2013
First published in 1967. Part of the International Library of Sociology collection, this is a study on 'Adopted Children' a volume of the Sociology of Gender and the Family subject area. A pioneering study in its time, this volume looks at how adopted children adjust as adults using a sample of 58 ...
An Approach to Urban Sociology
1st Edition
By P.H. Mann
September 25, 2013
This is Volume I of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. Originally published in 1965, the study aims with trying to present a sociological perspective rather than a guide to social policy. Written just before the change of government in October 1964, the purpose of this book is to ...
Apprenticeship: An Enquirey into its Adequacy under Modern Conditions
1st Edition
By Kate Liepmann
September 25, 2013
This is Volume I of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1960, this is a study following the appointment Carr Committee, in 1956, of the and in the interest aroused by the Committee's Report Training for Skill-Recruitment and Training of young Workers ...
Chekhov & His Russia Ils 267
1st Edition
By W.H. Bruford
September 25, 2013
This is Volume I of eight in a series on the Sociology of the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1948, the aim from the outset was to throw light both on Chekhov and on Russia, by trying to see Russia through Chekhov's eyes and to see Chekhov as the product of a particular age and country....
Creative Demobilisation: Part 1
1st Edition
By E.A. Gutkind
September 25, 2013
This is Volume II in a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1998, part one of creative demobilisation looks at the principles of national planning. The book attempts to lay down principles of planning on a national scale. It is not concerned with ...
Disaster: A Psychological Essay
1st Edition
By Martha Wolfenstein
September 25, 2013
This is Volume II out of eighteen on a series of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1957, this study is a psychological essay and is the result of a study undertaken for the Committee on disaster Studies of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council....