Explorations in social theory from metatheorizing to rationalization /

Main Author: Ritzer, George.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10080954
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.