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Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization / George Ritzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001Description: xii, 303 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761967729
  • 9780761967729
  • 0761967737
  • 9780761967736
Other title:
  • Explorations in social theory : From metatheorizing to rationalisation
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Explorations in social theory.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 301.01 21
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .R57 2001
  • H
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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