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Explorations in social theory [electronic resource] : from metatheorizing to rationalization / George Ritzer.

By: Ritzer, George.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: London ;Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001Description: xii, 303 p.Subject(s): Social sciences -- Philosophy | CivilizationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 301.01 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.