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.
Soviet Youth: Some Achievements and problems
1st Edition
By Dorothea L. Meek
September 25, 2013
First published in 1998. This is Volume VII, the final of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Collated in 1957, this is a collection of translated excerpts from the Soviet Press on the achievements and problems of the youth in the USSR. These pieces have been chosen to illustrate ...
Stevenage: A Sociological Study of a New Town
1st Edition
By Harold Orlans
September 25, 2013
This is Volume XIX in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1952. In November 1946, the British Government founded the New Town of Stevenage, thirty miles north of London, as part of a long-term programme to move over a million people from the ...
Studies in the Social Psychology of Adolescence
1st Edition
By J.F. Forrester et al, Dr J Richardson
September 25, 2013
This is Volume X of twelve in a collection of the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence. Originally published in 1951, this is a book of studies in social psychology The study of children in their social relationships, the effect of membership of groups, the school as a social therapeutic institution....
Technl Growth&Soc Chan Ils 165
1st Edition
By Stanley Arthur Hetzler
September 25, 2013
This is Volume XVI of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1969, this study looks achieving modernization via technological development and aims at the stimulation of theoretical inquiry to provide some insight as to how new hypotheses may be arrived ...
The Family Herds: A Study of Two Pastoral Tribes in East Africa, The Jie and T
1st Edition
By P.H. Gulliver
September 25, 2013
This is Volume VI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1955, this is a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, The Jie and the Turkana....
The Regions of Germany: A Geographical Interpretation
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
September 25, 2013
This is Volume VII of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. First published in 1945, this study looks at the issues and geographical investigation of forming federal German regions that forms units based on not just physical location, but socio-economic, common economic, cultural and...
The School Inspector
1st Edition
By E.L. Edmonds
September 25, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XX of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This book seeks to portray the growth of inspection in England, in a framework of its relations with teaching on the one hand, with administration on the other. It traces the history of inspection in ...
The Social Background of a Plan: A Study of Middlesbrough
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Glass
September 25, 2013
This is Volume X of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1948, this study uses Middlesbrough in the North East of England as a basis of research into the new Town and Country Planning Bill, and the widening responsibility of the planner to the broader basis of ...
The Social Services of Modern England
1st Edition
By M. Penelope Hall
September 25, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Written in 1952, this book looks at the social services after the closing years of the Second World War and the period of reconstruction which followed, when they ...
The West European City
1st Edition
By Robert E. Dickinson
September 25, 2013
This is Volume XII of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this study gives a geographical interpretation of the Western European city and looks at the towns of central Sweden, towns in France, Switzerland, German and French cities, as well as ...
Voluntary Societies and Social Policy
1st Edition
By Madeline Rooff
September 25, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVI of eighteen in a series on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. The main purpose is to throw some light on the changing role of voluntary organisations and their relation with statutory bodies in the provision of the British social services....
Stillness in a Mobile World
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bissell, Gillian Fuller
September 03, 2013
This edited collection of essays on the conceptual, political and philosophical importance of stillness is positioned within a world that has increasingly come to be understood through the theoretical and conceptual lens of movement. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the ...