Explorations in social theory : from metatheorizing to rationalization /
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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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
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2001.
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Table of 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.
