{"product_id":"explorations-in-social-theory-from-metatheorizing-to-rationalization-9780761967736","title":"Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Ritzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.26w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761967736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRitzer, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Ritzer\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe McDonaldization of Society \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e(8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of \u003cem\u003eMcDonaldization: The Reader\u003c\/em\u003e; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including\u003cem\u003e Enchanting a Disenchanted World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Globalization of Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eExpressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and \u003cem\u003eGlobalization: A Basic Text\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the Editor of the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Social Theory \u003c\/em\u003e(2 vols.), the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopedia of Sociology \u003c\/em\u003e(11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the\u003cem\u003e Encyclopedia of Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the\u003cem\u003e Journal of Consumer Culture\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of \u003cem\u003eEssentials of Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e with SAGE. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40191875874931,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e702b435-31e7-4ccb-bf4b-6bf27fcb103c.jpg?v=1655906198","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/explorations-in-social-theory-from-metatheorizing-to-rationalization-9780761967736","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}