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

• Autore: Ritzer George
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 303 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.01
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-292) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Explorations in social theory
• ISBN: 1-4739-4605-0; 0-7619-6773-7; 1-280-37033-5; 9786610370337; 1-4129-3328-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783242103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II