Book Series
International Library of Sociology
New & Published Titles:
Qualitative Complexity
Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory
Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43967-1 (Routledge)
Mediating Nature
Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39325-6 (Routledge)
Theories of the Information Society
Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all.
In Theories of the Information Society…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40633-8 (Routledge)
States of Knowledge
The Co-production of Science and the Social Order
In the past twenty years, the field of science and technology studies (S&TS) has made considerable progress toward illuminating the relationship between scientific knowledge and…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40329-0 (Routledge)
Visual Worlds
As many observers have noted, the world is becoming increasingly visually mediated, with the rise of computers and the internet being central factors in the…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36212-2 (Routledge)
The Culture of Exception
Sociology Facing the Camp
We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation,… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35122-5 (Routledge)
Brands
The Logos of the Global Economy
Brands are everywhere: in the air, on the high-street, in the kitchen, on television and, maybe even on your feet. But what are they?… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25183-9 (Routledge)
After Method
Mess in Social Science Research
John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant.… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34175-2 (Routledge)
Between Sex and Power
Family in the World 1900-2000
The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30078-0 (Routledge)
Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture
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… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28175-1 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
The International Library of Sociology is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940's by Karl Mannheim, the series became the pioneering and prestigious forum for research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology of youth and culture. The history of the ILS is the history of modern sociology.
Forthcoming Titles:
Time, Innovation and Mobilities: Travels in Technological Cultures
By Peter Frank Peters
To be published January 20th 2010
Haunting the Knowledge Economy
By Jane Kenway, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey, Simon Robb
To be published January 20th 2010
The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance
By Rodanthi Tzanelli
To be published January 20th 2010
Aeromobilities
Edited by Saulo Cwerner, Sven Kesselring, John Urry
To be published January 20th 2010
Social Transnationalism: Lifeworlds beyond the nation state
By Steffen Mau
To be published February 26th 2010
Towards Relational Sociology
By Nick Crossley
To be published July 30th 2010
Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements: The 1989 Chinese Student Movement
By Fang Deng
To be published July 30th 2010
Stillness in a Mobile World
Edited by David Bissell, Gillian Fuller
To be published September 30th 2010
Global China
By Lash Scott, Michael Keith, Jakob Arnoldi, Tyler Rooker
To be published October 31st 2010