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

Title
Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization / George Ritzer.
Author
Ritzer, George
Publication
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2001.

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xii, 303 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
Social sciences > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-292) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. Metatheorizing -- 1. Metatheorizing in Sociology -- 2. The Delineation of an Underlying Architectonic -- 3. Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science -- 4. Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm: Image of the Subject Matter -- 5. Potential Exemplars for an Integrated Sociological Paradigm -- 6. Methodological Relationism: Lessons for and from Social Psychology -- 7. From Exclusion to Inclusion to Chaos in Sociological Theory -- 8. The Implications of Postmodern Social Theory of Metatheorizing in Sociology -- pt. 2. Rationalization Theory -- 9. Rationalization and Deprofessionalization of Physicians -- 10. The McDonaldization of Society -- 11. Hyperrationality: An Extension of Weberian and Neo-Weberian Theory -- 12. Mannheim's Theory of Rationalization: An Alternative Resource for the McDonaldization Thesis? -- 13. The McDonaldization of American Sociology: A Metasociological Analysis.
ISBN
  • 0761967729
  • 0761967737 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 48588811
  • SCSB-11262761
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library