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 Werner Stark
November 01, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V of an eleven volume library of Sociology on Economics and Society and includes the history of economic thought in its relation to social development and includes appendices on the problems found and the main literature used....
By Don Martindale
November 02, 2010
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XI of twenty-two in a series on Social Theory and Methodology. Notions are widespread that sociological theory is either an industrious activity on the drawing boards of the architects of fantasy or a branch of esoterics operating in a shadowy realm of ...
By C. de Ridder
May 15, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VI, of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. Written in 1953, this text is a thematic apperception test study which presents the results of some six years' research into the urban African personality as it has evolved in the major industrial ...
By Gunnar Myrdal
March 02, 2007
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of eleven in the Economics and Society series. Translated from Swedish, the setting was the Swedish economic discussion in the late 'twenties, the years preceding the crash on the New York Stock Exchange in September 1929 was a time of confidence in ...
By Robert E. Dickinson
September 25, 2013
This is Volume VII of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. First published in 1945, this study looks at the issues and geographical investigation of forming federal German regions that forms units based on not just physical location, but socio-economic, common economic, cultural and...
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By Ruth Glass
September 25, 2013
This is Volume X of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1948, this study uses Middlesbrough in the North East of England as a basis of research into the new Town and Country Planning Bill, and the widening responsibility of the planner to the broader basis of ...
By K.G. Collier
September 25, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XXIV of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This book seeks to provide an introduction and guide to social psychology of education, looking at schools as a social space. Written in 1959 it is addressed primarily to teachers and ...
By M. Penelope Hall
September 25, 2013
First Published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Written in 1952, this book looks at the social services after the closing years of the Second World War and the period of reconstruction which followed, when they ...
By Stark F. Werner
November 03, 2010
This is Volume XVII of twenty-two in a collection on Social Theory and Methodology. Originally published in 1958, this book presents an essay in aid of a deeper understanding of the history of ideas....
By W. M. Williams
May 15, 2013
This is Volume XI of thirteen in a collection on the Urban and Regional Sociology. Initially published in 1956, the subject of this work is Gosforth in the North West with its long history and because it contained both a village and scattered farms. The field-work took place between July 1950 and ...
By John McLeish
November 03, 2010
This is Volume XIX of twenty-two in the Social Theory and Methodology series. First published in 1969, this study looks at four views of the theory of social change and is intended for students in social studies, education and social psychology at university level....
By Robert E. Dickinson
September 25, 2013
This is Volume XII of thirteen in a collection on Urban and Regional Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this study gives a geographical interpretation of the Western European city and looks at the towns of central Sweden, towns in France, Switzerland, German and French cities, as well as ...