Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization /
Ritzer, George,
Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization / Explorations in social theory : From metatheorizing to rationalisation George Ritzer. - xii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metatheorizing in sociology -- The deliniation of an underlying architectonic -- Sociology: a multiple paradigm science -- Toward an integrated sociological paradigm: image of the subject matter -- Potential exemplars for an integrated sociological paradigm -- Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology -- From exclusion to inclusion to chaos in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? -- The McDonaldization of American sociology: a metasociological analysis.
Ritzer offers a description of the sociological condition in this text. It contains reflections on uses and missuses of metatheory and finds a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of an integrated sociological paradigm.
0761967729 9780761967729 0761967737 9780761967736
2001275133
Social sciences--Philosophy
Civilization.
Sociology--Philosophy
HM585 / .R57 2001 H
301.01
Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization / Explorations in social theory : From metatheorizing to rationalisation George Ritzer. - xii, 303 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metatheorizing in sociology -- The deliniation of an underlying architectonic -- Sociology: a multiple paradigm science -- Toward an integrated sociological paradigm: image of the subject matter -- Potential exemplars for an integrated sociological paradigm -- Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology -- From exclusion to inclusion to chaos in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? -- The McDonaldization of American sociology: a metasociological analysis.
Ritzer offers a description of the sociological condition in this text. It contains reflections on uses and missuses of metatheory and finds a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of an integrated sociological paradigm.
0761967729 9780761967729 0761967737 9780761967736
2001275133
Social sciences--Philosophy
Civilization.
Sociology--Philosophy
HM585 / .R57 2001 H
301.01