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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.

340 Series Titles


Society and Nature A Sociological Inquiry

Society and Nature: A Sociological Inquiry

1st Edition

By Hans Kelsen
June 18, 2013

First published in 1998.This is Volume XIV of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This text is concerned with sociological inquiry into society and nature. Written in 1946, it investigates the idea that society and nature, if conceived of as two different systems of ...

Adult Education A Comparative Study

Adult Education: A Comparative Study

1st Edition

By Peers F. Robert
June 03, 2013

This is Volume II of twenty-eight in a series on the Sociology of Education. Originally published in 1958, this is a comparative study of adult education in that starts with a historical review of the provision in England before 1850, between the Wars and beyond as well as delving into the ...

Developmnt Conscience  Ils 242

Developmnt Conscience Ils 242

1st Edition

By Geoffrey M. Stephenson
June 03, 2013

First Published in 1998. This is Volume I in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This work was first written as a Ph..D. thesis and submitted to the University of Nottingham under the title 'Conscience and Psychopathy: an investigation into the nature and development of the conscience...

Down Stream Failure in the Grammar School

Down Stream: Failure in the Grammar School

1st Edition

By R.R. Dale, S. Griffiths
June 03, 2013

First Published in 1998. This work had its origin in the concern of one of the authors about those children who entered a certain grammar school in a high position on the entrance list and who therefore gave promise of good academic progress, yet were found at the end of the first academic year to ...

Educ Borstal Boys      Ils 204

Educ Borstal Boys Ils 204

1st Edition

By Erica Stratta
June 03, 2013

This is Volume VI of fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology Series. Originally published in 1957 this study looks at the educational experiences prior to, and during, Borstal training. The idea that education, or rather the lack of it, is a contributory factor in the crime of the young is ...

Education & Society in Modern France    Ils 219

Education & Society in Modern France Ils 219

1st Edition

By William Rae Fraser
June 03, 2013

First Published in 1998. This is Volume VI of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Post-war plans for the reshaping of the school system in France have succeeded and superseded each other with confusing rapidity. They reflect the vigorous attempts of intelligent Frenchmen to construct...

Education & Society in Modern Germany

Education & Society in Modern Germany

1st Edition

By Samuel, R. H. and Thomas R. Hinton
June 03, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume VII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Written in 1948, this book gives a concise and critical assessment of education in modern Germany. The authors have concentrated on those most integrally bound up with the significant trends in German...

Education after School

Education after School

1st Edition

By C. Stimson
June 03, 2013

First published in 1946. Part of the International Library of Sociology collection, this is a study on Education After School' a volume of the sociology of education subject area....

Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

Education and the Handicapped 1760 - 1960

1st Edition

By D.G. Pritchard
June 03, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. During the nineteenth century and part of the twentieth the children now known as disabled or with accessibility needs were termed physically defective and mentally defective; the schools that they ...

Frustration & Aggressn Ils 245

Frustration & Aggressn Ils 245

1st Edition

Edited By DOLLARD ET AL
June 03, 2013

First Published in 1998. This is Volume IV in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. In the preparation of this book two aspects of the work of the Institute of Human Relations are illustrated. The first is that of co-operative research. It has been co-operative not only in the that ...

Group Problems in Crime and Punishment

Group Problems in Crime and Punishment

1st Edition

By Hermann Mannheim
June 03, 2013

First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of the fifteen in the Sociology of Law and Criminology series. This is a collection of mainly previously published periodicals, articles, reports or reviews on group problems in crime and punishment. The material has throughout been revised in 1955 and ...

History of a Soviet Collective Farm

History of a Soviet Collective Farm

1st Edition

By Fedor Belov
June 03, 2013

First published in 1998. This is volume IV of VIII in the international library of sociology based on the sociology of the Soviet Union. The author’s account of the life on the collective farm is based mainly on the diaries which he was able to bring with him out of the Soviet Union. The diaries ...

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