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.
By Fang Deng
November 28, 2012
Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence? This puzzle, which lies at the heart of the tragic events at Tiananmen, is addressed here from a fresh ...
By Heinz Maus
January 10, 2003
Originally published in English in 1962, this book presents in clear language an account of the growth of sociology from its earliest roots in the Enlightenment, through the 19th century philosophers in Germany, positivists in France, social workers in England, the theorists in America, through the...
By Werner Stark
February 25, 2014
First published in 1998. This is Volume I of nine in the Historical Sociology series and looks at the United States of 1776 in contemporary European philosophy. This is a developed study of a lecture given on ‘Bourgeois Ideal and Capitalist Reality’-the capitalist reality which is the natural ...
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By Leonard Reissman
February 25, 2014
This is Volume II of twenty-one in a collection of Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1960, this book is about the place of class and its synonyms, status, prestige, and power, in the structure of American society. A dominant theme of the book is that classes do exist even ...
By Claire Valier
February 25, 2014
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 criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular ...
By Robert F. Bales, Talcot Parsons
March 31, 2007
This is Volume VII of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1956, this collection of papers demonstrates the authors’ interest is in the functioning of the modern American family and its place in the structure of our society and that perhaps the ...
By Huizinga
October 10, 2008
This is Volume III of nine in series on the Sociology of Culture. Originally published in 1949, this is a study of the play-element in culture and is translated from the German edition....
By Brian Simon
February 25, 2014
This is a collection of papers created from a visit by teachers and educationalists to the U.S.S.R in April 1955 by invitation of Academy of Educational Sciences of the R.S.F.S.R. The aim of this volume is to familiarize English readers with the general direction of Soviet psychology, but designed ...
By K. L. Little
February 13, 2014
This is Volume XII in a series of twenty-one on Class, Race and Social Structure. Originally published in 1948, this volume offers a study of racial relations in English society, using language of the time....
By Garth N Jones
February 13, 2014
This is Volume IX of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Work and Organisation. First published in 1968, this is a study of change dynamics and represents the author’s latest research and thinking on change....
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 ...
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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...