TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritzer,George
TI  - Explorations in social theory: from metatheorizing to rationalization 
SN  - 0761967729
AV  - HM585 .R57 2001
U1  - 301.01 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Sociology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2001275133-b.html
ER  -