Explorations in social theory [electronic resource] : from metatheorizing to rationalization / George Ritzer.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.Description: xii, 303 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 301.01 21
- HM585 .R578 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-292) 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.
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