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 Elton Mayo
May 12, 2007
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of eleven of the Economic and Society series. Including an appendix on the political problem, this book includes the thoughts of Elton Mayo, seen initially as a modern social thinker who challenges the basic assumptions of the practical world of industry...
By Dorothy W. Douglas
May 03, 2013
This is Volume XI of a series of eleven of Economic and Society. Originally published in 1953, this includes a look at the Polish-Czech example- looking at the influence if USSR and bases of change in Poland; Czechoslovakia, commonalities and their transition to socialism....
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By William Lloyd Warner
June 03, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is the final volume of 28 the international library of sociology looking at the sociology of education and is concerned with the topic of who shall be educated and the challenge of unequal opportunities in the United States. If the American faith in the public school ...
By Julian Blackburn
June 03, 2013
This is Volume III of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. First published in 1947, this study looks at the culture-pattern theory....
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...
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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 ...
By Arnold M. Rose
June 03, 2013
This is Volume VI in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1962, this book offers the interactionist approach when looking at human behaviour and social processes. This book shows that interaction theory can provide us with a body of significant ...
By A.K.C. Ottaway
June 03, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. This book is a description of some of the things which happen in small groups of a particular kind. This kind of group I have called a 'non-directive' training group. This is a personal account of the ...
By Julian Blackburn
June 03, 2013
This is Volume X of eighteen in the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology series. Published in 1945, the aim of this study is to provide an account of most of the major contributions to experimental psychology and an attempt to bring out the social aspects of those topics which are generally ...
By John Dollard, Neal E. Miller
September 25, 2013
This is Volume XIII of eighteen in a collection of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Imitation has long been an important concept, as well in social theory as in social practices. In their endeavour to explain how societies are organized and held together, allow cultures are transmitted ...
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By Valda Blundell, John Shepherd, Ian Taylor
November 27, 2013
Britain is no longer the sole organizing centre for cultural studies. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how cultural studies has diffused into other English-speaking countries and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. The result is a landmark book which provides ...
By Peter Merriman
November 08, 2013
Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to ...