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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.

345 Series Titles


Comparative Criminology A Textbook

Comparative Criminology: A Textbook

1st Edition

By Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013

This is Volume I of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part one of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the ...

Comparative Criminology A Textbook

Comparative Criminology: A Textbook

1st Edition

By Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013

This is Volume II of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1965, this textbook is part two of two, meant for students and deals more fully than usual with such fundamental matters as the very concepts of crime and criminology and especially with the ...

Crime An Analytical Appraisal

Crime: An Analytical Appraisal

1st Edition

By Manuel Lopez-Rey
July 26, 2013

This is Volume III of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Law and Criminology. Originally published in 1970, this study analyses crime and touches on areas of the extent, as a social problem, the expansion and distribution of crime and a theory on juvenile delinquency....

Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction

Criminal Justice and Social Reconstruction

1st Edition

By Hermann Mannheim
July 26, 2013

This is Volume V of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology series. Originally published in 1946, readers of the present volume will be aware of the links existing, for instance, between certain chapters of the author’s previous work ‘Social Aspects’, especially those on Business ...

English Primary Education Part One

English Primary Education: Part One

1st Edition

By W.A.L. Blyth
July 26, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume XII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is part one of a study looking at primary schools from a sociological descriptive view kickstarted by the 1963 review of primary education and its transition into secondary education, by the ...

From School to University A Study with Special Reference to University Entrance

From School to University: A Study with Special Reference to University Entrance

1st Edition

By R.R. Dale
July 26, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume XV of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is a study with special reference to university entrance written in 1949 which started as an enquiry into the performance of a group of university scholarship holders in their First-Year ...

Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education

Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education

1st Edition

By Olive Banks
July 26, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume XVIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This study looks at the parity and prestige factors in English secondary school education and initially written in 1955. It looks at the desired aim of the secondary school as ensuring that every ...

Revolution Of Environment

Revolution Of Environment

1st Edition

By Eric A. Gutkind
July 26, 2013

This is Volume VIII of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1946, this study looks at the revolution of environment, the physical reshaping and the question of how can real world ‘unity’ be established. The world's open spaces have been taken up and its...

Sixth Form&Coll Entrnc Ils 234

Sixth Form&Coll Entrnc Ils 234

1st Edition

By Raymond Morris
July 26, 2013

This is Volume XXI of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education Series. Originally published in 1969, since the war, and especially over the last decade, everyday interest in higher education has been increasing rapidly. Public interest has pinpointed a variety of practical problems implicit in ...

Social Sec:Beveridge   Ils 191

Social Sec:Beveridge Ils 191

1st Edition

By George Victor
July 26, 2013

First Published in 1998. This book is concerned with the development of social security in the United Kingdom and is aimed mainly at social science students and social work students. References to the 1930's and earlier or to social security provisions in other countries are made with the sole ...

Social Services in British Industry

Social Services in British Industry

1st Edition

By A.F. Young
July 26, 2013

This is Volume XII of a series of eighteen on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1968. The title Social Services in British Industry might seem a contradiction in terms. Industry is concerned with productive processes and the provision and exchange of goods and ...

Sociology Of Housing   Ils 194

Sociology Of Housing Ils 194

1st Edition

By R. N. Morris, John Mogey
July 26, 2013

This is Volume XIV of eighteen in a collection of works on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1964, this is a study of Berinsfield which was originally a rural slum known as Field Farm in Oxfordshire....

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