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Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization

By George Ritzer

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0761967729, 9780761967729, 9781412933285
LCC
HM585 .R57 2001
Open Library ID
OL3968827M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2047351 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\316
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

George Ritzer is one of the leading social and cultural commentators of the present day. In this essential new book he considers some of the main tendencies in contemporary social theory. Included here are Ritzer's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory. According to Ritzer, sociology is a multiparadigm science. The differences and intensities of rivalries between paradigms are often very confusing for students and even for professional sociologists. This book seeks to find a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of a new integrated sociological paradigm and demonstrates how this paradigm can be applied. It shows the various ways in which Ritzer has developed rationalization theory to shed light on professional integration, the shape of consumer culture, hyperrationality and the state of sociology today.

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