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International Library of Sociology


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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.

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A History of Autobiography in Antiquity Part 1

A History of Autobiography in Antiquity: Part 1

1st Edition

By Georg Misch
February 25, 2014

This is Volume IV of 9 historical works from the International Library of Sociology. This is part one of two looking at the history of the autobiography. Appearing in isolation as they do, autobiographies demand for their description and appreciation, a comprehensive view of the development of the ...

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach

1st Edition

By Spiros Gangas
October 10, 2019

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach. Spanning classical (Hegel, Marx, Durkheim, Scheler, Weber) and contemporary debates (...

Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity S. N. Eisenstadt and Israeli Society

Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity: S. N. Eisenstadt and Israeli Society

1st Edition

By Stavit Sinai
March 27, 2019

Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social imaginaries. As a discursive practice that was enmeshed in the meta-narratives of modernity, the discipline of sociology bears the inherent capacity to ...

Chekhov & His Russia   Ils 267

Chekhov & His Russia Ils 267

1st Edition

By W.H. Bruford
September 25, 2013

This is Volume I of eight in a series on the Sociology of the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1948, the aim from the outset was to throw light both on Chekhov and on Russia, by trying to see Russia through Chekhov's eyes and to see Chekhov as the product of a particular age and country....

Co-Operative Communities at Work

Co-Operative Communities at Work

1st Edition

By Henrik F. Infield
July 21, 2016

This is Volume IV in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1947, in this study is an attempt to sum up the lessons offered by co-operative communities of the past and present. The work deals with two principal tasks: (I) a description of the most ...

Disaster A Psychological Essay

Disaster: A Psychological Essay

1st Edition

By Martha Wolfenstein
September 25, 2013

This is Volume II out of eighteen on a series of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1957, this study is a psychological essay and is the result of a study undertaken for the Committee on disaster Studies of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council....

Personality and Problems of Adjustment

Personality and Problems of Adjustment

1st Edition

By Kimbell Young
September 25, 2013

This is Volume IX out of eighteen on a series of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1947, this is essentially to be a college text in courses dealing with the psychology of personality or with problems of mental hygiene, and to serve as an orientation to the ...

Class Structure in the Social Consciousness

Class Structure in the Social Consciousness

1st Edition

By Stanislaw Ossowski
August 14, 2018

First published in 1998. This is Volume III of the twenty-one in the Race, Class and Social Structure series. Looking at social consciousness, in part one it focuses on biblical legends o comparer sociology and then expands to include conceptual constructs and social reality in the second section....

Indian Village

Indian Village

2nd Edition

By S.C. Dube
November 02, 2017

Indian Village is widely considered a "classic." Since its publication, over six decades ago, the book has received immense acclaim, attaining extraordinary success, especially as the first book on a single village in post—Second World War South Asia. Indeed, the work represents a key statement of ...

Sigmund Freud - An Introduction

Sigmund Freud - An Introduction

1st Edition

By Walter Hollitscher
October 21, 2010

This is Volume XII of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1947 this includes a presentation of Sigmund Freud’s Theory, and a discussion of the relationship between psycho-analysis and sociology....

European Cosmopolitanism Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies

European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Societies

1st Edition

Edited By Gurminder Bhambra, John Narayan
November 10, 2016

This book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings....

Lifestyle Shopping The Subject of Consumption

Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption

1st Edition

Edited By Rob Shields
September 24, 1992

First Published in 2004. In contemporary shopping sites new modes of subjectivity, inter-personal relationships and models of social totality are being tried on, taken off and displayed in much the same way that one might shop for clothes. These are not the modernist spaces of goal-directed ...

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