TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritzer,George
TI  - Explorations in social theory: from metatheorizing to rationalization 
SN  - 1412933285
AV  - HM585 .R578 2001eb
U1  - 301.01 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - civilization
KW  - aat
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Regional Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Rationalisering
KW  - gtt
KW  - Metatheorie
KW  - Sociologie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 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; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK); Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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