Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization / George Ritzer.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001Description: xii, 303 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761967729
- 9780761967729
- 0761967737
- 9780761967736
- Explorations in social theory : From metatheorizing to rationalisation
- 301.01 21
- HM585 .R57 2001
- H
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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.
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