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- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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- Book — xvii, 661 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 George Ritzer PART I INTRODUCTION 7
- 1 Philosophy and Sociology 9 Stephen Turner
- 2 A Selective History of Sociology 25 Alan Sica
- 3 Quantitative Methods 55 Russell K. Schutt
- 4 Qualitative Methods 73 Mitchell Duneier
- 5 Classical Sociological Theory 82 Alan Sica
- 6 Contemporary Sociological Theory 98 George Ritzer and William Yagatich PART II BASIC TOPICS IN SOCIOLOGY 119
- 7 Action, Interaction, and Groups 121 Kimberly B. Rogers and Lynn Smith-Lovin
- 8 Groups and Institutions, Structures and Processes 139 Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell
- 9 The Sociology of Organizations 164 Stewart R. Clegg
- 10 Cultural Analysis 182 John Tomlinson
- 11 The Changing Life Course 197 Angela M. O'Rand
- 12 Deviance: A Sociology of Unconventionalities 212 Nachman Ben-Yehuda
- 13 Criminology 229 Charles F. Wellford
- 14 Critical Sexualities Studies 243 Ken Plummer
- 15 Feeling Class: Affect and Culture in the Making of Class Relations 269 Beverley Skeggs
- 16 Racial and Ethnic Issues: Critical Race Approaches in the United States 287 Brittany Chevon Slatton and Joe R. Feagin
- 17 Genders and Sexualities in Global Context: An Intersectional Assessment of Contemporary Scholarship 304 Nancy A. Naples and Barbara Gurr
- 18 Changing Families: Fluidity, Partnership, and Family Structure 333 Graham Allan and Emma Head
- 19 Sociology of Education 348 Maureen T. Hallinan and Ge Liu
- 20 Sociology of Religion 367 Christian Smith and Robert D. Woodberry
- 21 Current Directions in Medical Sociology 385 William C. Cockerham
- 22 Media and Communications 402 John Durham Peters and Jefferson D. Pooley
- 23 Work and Employment 418 Steven P. Vallas
- 24 The Sociology of Consumption 444 P. J. Rey and George Ritzer
- 25 Population 470 Suzanne M. Bianchi and Vanessa Wight
- 26 Urbanization 488 Kevin Fox Gotham
- 27 Environmental Sociology 504 Richard York and Riley E. Dunlap
- 28 Social Movements 522 Remy Cross and David A. Snow
- 29 Globalization 545 Paul Dean and George Ritzer PART III CUTTING EDGE ISSUES IN SOCIOLOGY
- 565 30 After Neoliberalism: Whither Capitalism? 567 Robert J. Antonio
- 31 Organized Coercion and Political Authority: Armed Conflict in a World of States 588 Meyer Kestnbaum
- 32 Science and Technology: Now and in the Future 609 Mark Erickson and Frank Webster
- 33 The Internet, Web 2.0, and Beyond 626 Nathan Jurgenson and George Ritzer Index 649.
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2. The concise encyclopedia of sociology [2011]
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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- Book — lii, 726 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Contributors. Introduction. Acknowledgments. Timeline. Lexicon. Sociology A-Z. Index.
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- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Malden [Mass.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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- Book — 2 v. ; 26 cm.
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- Volume I: Classical. List of Contributors. Preface. Introduction (Jeffrey Stepnisky, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta, Canada).
- 1. Ibn Khaldun (Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore).
- 2. Auguste Comte (Mary Pickering, San Jose State University, USA).
- 3. Harriet Martineau (Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, American University, Washington DC, USA).
- 4. Alexis de Tocqueville (Laura Janara, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).
- 5. Karl Marx (Robert J. Antonio, University of Kansas, USA).
- 6. Herbert Spencer (Mark Francis, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand).
- 7. Thorstein Veblen (Ken McCormick, University of Northern Iowa, USA).
- 8. Georg Simmel (Lawrence A. Scaff, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA).
- 9. Emile Durkheim Tara Milbrandt (University of Alberta, Canada and Frank Pearce, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada).
- 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Judith A. Allen, Indiana University, USA).
- 11. Max Weber (Stephen Kalberg, Boston University, USA).
- 12. George Herbert Mead (Dmitri N. Shalin, University of Nevada, USA).
- 13. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Paul C. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University, USA).
- 14. Joseph A. Schumpeter (Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA).
- 15. Karl Mannheim (Colin Loader, University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
- 16. Alfred Schutz (Jochen Dreher, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland).
- 17. Talcott Parsons (Victor Lidz, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA).
- 18. Theodor W. Adorno (Harry F. Dahms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA). Index. Volume II: Contemporary.
- 1. Norbert Elias (Richard Kilminster, University of Leeds, UK, and Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin, Ireland).
- 2. Henri Lefebvre (Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Canada).
- 3. Robert K. Merton (Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand).
- 4. Harold Garfinkel (Anne Warfield Rawls, Bentley University, USA, and L Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, France).
- 5. Erving Goffman (Greg Smith, University of Salford, UK).
- 6. Zygmunt Bauman (Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University, Australia).
- 7. Gilles Deleuze (Ian Buchanan, Cardiff University).
- 8. Richard M. Emerson (Karen S. Cook, Stanford University, USA, and Joseph M. Whitmeyer, UNC Charlotte, USA).
- 9. James S. Coleman (Guillermina Jasso, New York University, USA).
- 10. Michel Foucault (Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University, UK, and University of Johannesburg, South Africa).
- 11. Dorothy E. Smith (Marie L. Campbell, University of Victoria, Canada, and Marjorie L. DeVault, Syracuse University, USA).
- 12. Niklas Luhmann (Rudolf Stichweh, University of Lucerne, Switzerland).
- 13. Jean Baudrillard (Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA).
- 14. Jurgen Habermas (William Outhwaite, Newcastle University, UK).
- 15. Pierre Bourdieu (Craig Calhoun, New York University, USA).
- 16. Immanuel Wallerstein (Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside, USA, and Hiroko Inoue, University of California, Riverside, USA).
- 17. Edward W. Said (Patrick Williams, Nottingham Trent University, UK).
- 18. Anthony Giddens (Christopher G. A. Bryant, University of Salford, UK, and David Jary, Open University, UK).
- 19. Giorgio Agamben (Catherine Mills, University of Sydney, Australia).
- 20. Ulrich Beck (Iain Wilkinson, University of Kent, UK).
- 21. Donna Haraway (Janet Wirth-Cauchon, Drake University, USA).
- 22. Bruno Latour (Sal Restivo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA, and Northeastern University, Shenyang, China).
- 23. Judith Butler (Moya Lloyd, Loughborough University, UK). Index.
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4. The McDonaldization of society 5 [2008]
- Ritzer, George.
- [5th ed.] - Los Angles : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
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- Book — xix, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Preface
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to McDonaldization McDonald's as a Global Icon The Long Arm of McDonaldization The Dimensions of McDonaldization Critique of McDonaldization: The Irrationality of Rationality Illustrating the Dimensions of McDonaldization: The Case of Ikea The Advantages of McDonaldization What Isn't McDonaldized? A Look Ahead
- Chapter 2: The Past, Present, and Future of McDonaldization: From the Iron Cage to the Fast-Food Factory and Beyond Bureaucratization: Making Life More Rational The Holocaust: Mass-Produced Death Scientific Management: Finding the One Best Way The Assembly Line: Turning Workers Into Robots Levittown: Putting Up Houses
- "Boom, Boom, Boom" Shopping Centers: Malling America McDonald's: Creating the "Fast-Food Factory" McDonaldization and Contemporary Social Changes
- Chapter 3: Efficiency: Drive-Throughs and Finger Foods Streamlining the Process Simplifying the Product Putting Customers to Work
- Chapter 4: Calculability: Big Macs and Little Chips Emphasizing Quantity Rather Than Quality of Products Reducing Production and Service to Numbers
- Chapter 5: Predictability: It Never Rains on Those Little Houses on the Hillside Creating Predicatable Settings Scripting Interaction With Customers Making Employee Behavior Predictable Creating Predictable Products and Processes Minimizing Danger and Unpleasantness
- Chapter 6: Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots Controlling Employees Controlling Customers Controlling the Process and the Product The Ultimate Examples of Control: Birth and Death?
- Chapter 7: The Irrationality of Rationality: Traffic Jams on Those "Happy Trails" Inefficiency: Long Lines at the Checkout High Cost: Better Off at Home False Friendliness: "Hi, George" Disenchantment: Where's the Magic? Health and Environmental Hazards: Even Your Pets Are at Risk Homogenization: It's No Different in Paris Dehumanization: Getting Hosed at "Trough and Brew"
- Chapter 8: Globalization and McDonaldization: Does It All Amount to ... "Nothing"? Globalization McDonaldization and Grobalization Nothing-Something and McDonaldization Nothing-Something and Grobalization-Glocalization The Case for McDonaldization as an Example of the Glocalization of Something The Case for McDonaldization as an Example of the Grobalization of Nothing
- Chapter 9: Dealing With McDonaldization: A Practical Guide Creating "Reasonable" Alternatives: Sometimes You Really Do Have to Break the Rules Fighting Back Collectively: Saving Hearts, Minds, Taste Buds, and the Piazza di Spagna Coping Individually: "Skunk Works, " Blindfolded Children, and Fantasy Worlds Some Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 10: The Starbuckization of Society? Howard Schultz and the Founding of the Starbucks Empire: No More Swill What Has Starbucks Added to, or Removed From, the McDonald's Model? Should the Concept of "Starbuckization" Replace "McDonaldization"? The "Starbucks Effect" The Convergence of Starbucks and McDonald's Notes Bibliography Index About the Author.
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5. The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology [2007]
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2007.
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- Book — 11 v. (cxxiv, 5650 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Contributors.Introduction.Entries in alphabetical order (each volume A-E / F-K / etc) including cross references and further reading and ranging from 500-6000 words per entry.Lexicon by subject area.Bibliography.Index.
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6. Encyclopedia of social theory [2005]
- Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, ©2005.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxxviii, 1-982))
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- v. 1. Actor Network Theory
- Affect Control Theory
- Agency-Structure Integration
- AGIL
- Alexander, Jeffrey
- Alienation
- Althusser, Louis
- Annales School
- Anomie
- Anzaldua, Gloria
- Augé, Marc
- Authority
- Bartky, Sandra Lee
- Bataille, Georges
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Bauman, Zygmunt
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Beck, Ulrich
- Becker, Howard
- Behaviorism
- Bell, Daniel
- Bellah, Robert
- Benjamin, Jessica
- Benjamin, Walter
- Berger, Joseph
- Blau, Peter
- Blumberg, Rae
- Blumer, Herbert
- Body
- Bonald, Louis de
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Bureaucracy
- Butler, Judith
- Capital
- Capitalism
- Cassirer, Ernst
- Castoriadis, Cornelius
- Celebrity
- Certeau, Michel de
- Chafetz, Janet
- Chodorow, Nancy
- Citizenship
- Civil Society
- Civility
- Civilizing Processes
- Cognitive Sociology
- Coleman, James
- Collective Conscience
- Collective Memory
- Collège de Sociologie and Acéphale
- Collins, Patricia Hill
- Collins, Randall
- Commitment
- Complexity Theory
- Compulsory Heterosexuality
- Comte, Auguste
- Conflict Theory
- Consumer Culture
- Conversation Analysis
- Cook, Karen
- Cooley, Charles Horton
- Coser, Lewis
- Cosmopolitan Sociology
- Crime
- Critical Pedagogy
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Marxism and British Cultural Studies
- Cultural Studies and the New Populism
- Culture and Civilization
- Dahrendorf, Ralf
- Davis, Angela
- Debord, Guy
- Deconstruction
- Deleuze, Gilles
- Democracy
- Derrida, Jacques
- Deviance
- Dialectic
- Dilthey, Wilhelm
- Discourse
- Disneyization
- Distributive Justice
- Dramaturgy
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.)
- Durkheim, Émile
- Ecofeminism
- Ecological Theory
- Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.
- Elementary Theory
- Elias, Norbert
- Emergence
- Emerson, Richard
- Emotion Work
- Enchantment/Disenchantment
- Essentialism
- Ethnomethodology
- Evolutionary Theory
- Exchange Coalitions
- Exchange Networks
- Exploitation
- Family Wage
- Feminism
- Feminist Cultural Studies
- Feminist Epistemology
- Feminist Ethics
- Figurational Sociology
- Film: The Business and Marketing of Hollywood's Products
- Fordism and Post-Fordism
- Foucault, Michel
- Frame Analysis
- Frankfurt School
- Freud, Sigmund
- Game Theory
- Garfinkel, Harold
- Gender
- Genealogy
- General Systems Theory
- Generalized Exchange
- German Idealism
- Giddens, Anthony
- Gilligan, Carol
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Globalization
- Goffman, Erving
- Goldstone, Jack
- Gouldner, Alvin
- Governmentality
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Graph Theoretic Measures of Power
- Green Movements
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Habitus
- Hall, Stuart
- Harding, Sandra
- Hartsock, Nancy
- Hawley, Amos
- Heller, Agnes
- Hermeneutics
- Herrschaft (Rule)
- Historical and Comparative Theory
- Historical Materialism
- Historicism
- Hollywood Film
- Holocaust
- Homans, George
- Hughes, Everett
- Hyperreality
- Ideal Type
- Identity
- Identity Politics
- Imperialism
- Impression Management
- Individualism
- Industrial Society
- Institutional Theory
- Internet and Cyberculture
- Intimacy
- Irigaray, Luce
- Jameson, Frederic
- Kristeva, Julia
- Labeling Theory
- Lacan, Jacques
- Latour, Bruno
- Lawler, Edward
- Learning Theory
- Lefebvre, Henri
- Lesbian Continuum
- Levels of Social Structure
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Liberal Feminism
- Lifeworld
- Lindenberg, Siegwart
- Logocentrism
- Lorde, Audre
- Luhmann, Niklas
- Lukács, György
- Madness
- Maistre, Joseph de
- Male Gaze
- Mann, Michael
- Mannheim, Karl
- Markovsky, Barry
- Marx, Karl
- Marxism
- Maternal Thinking
- Matrix of Domination
- McDonaldization
- Mead, George Herbert
- Means of Consumption
- Means of Production
- Media Critique
- Merton, Robert
- Metatheory
- Micro-Macro Integration
- Mills, C. Wright
- Minnich, Elizabeth
- Modernity
- Molm, Linda
- Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat
- Morality and Aesthetic Judgement.
- v. 2. Nationalism
- Negotiated Order
- Neo-Kantianism
- Network Exchange Theory
- Network Theory
- Outsider-Within
- Paradigm
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- Park, Robert
- Parsons, Talcott
- Patriarchy
- Phenomenology
- Philosophical Anthropology
- Political Economy
- Popular Music
- Pornography and Cultural Studies
- Positivism
- Positivismusstreit (Positivist Dispute)
- Postcolonialism
- Post-Marxism
- Postmodernism
- Postmodernist Feminism
- Postsocial
- Poststructuralism
- Power
- Power-Dependence Relations
- Pragmatism
- Procedural Justice
- Professions
- Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
- Public Sphere
- Queer Theory
- Radical Feminism
- Rational Choice
- Rationalization
- Reform
- Reification
- Relational Cohesion
- Religion
- Religion in French Social Theory
- Revolution
- Rhetorical Turn in Social Theory
- Rieff, Philip
- Risk Society
- Ritzer, George
- Role Theory
- Rorty, Richard
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rubin, Gayle
- Ruddick, Sara
- Sacred and Profane
- Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Saussure, Ferdinand de
- Scheler, Max
- Schütz, Alfred
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Secularization
- Self and Self-Concept
- Semiology
- Sexuality and the Subject
- Simmel, Georg
- Simulation
- Simulations
- Situationists
- Smelser, Neil
- Smith, Dorothy
- Social Action
- Social Capital
- Social Class
- Social Constructionism
- Social Darwinism
- Social Dilemma
- Social Exchange Theory
- Social Facts
- Social Interaction
- Social Market Economy (Soziale Markwirtschaft)
- Social Movement Theory
- Social Rationality
- Social Space
- Social Structure
- Social Studies of Science
- Social Worlds
- Socialism
- Socialization
- Sociologies of Everyday Life
- Sombart, Werner
- Sorokin, Pitirim
- Spencer, Herbert
- Sport
- Standpoint Theory
- State
- Statics and Dynamics
- Status Relations
- Stratification
- Strauss, Anselm
- Strength of Weak Ties
- Structural Functionalism
- Structuralism
- Structuralist Marxism
- Structuration
- Sumner, William Graham
- Surveillance and Society
- Symbolic Interaction
- Taylor, Charles
- Television and Social Theory
- Theory Construction
- Thomas, William Isaac
- Tilly, Charles
- Time and Social Theory
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Tönnies, Ferdinand
- Total Institutions
- Touraine, Alain
- Trust
- Turner, Bryan
- Turner, Jonathan
- Urbanization
- Utopia
- Veblen, Thorstein
- Verstehen
- Video and Computer Games
- Virilio, Paul
- Vocabularies of Motives
- Wallerstein, Immanuel
- Weber, Marianne
- Weber, Max
- Werturteilsstreit (Value Judgment Dispute)
- White, Harrison
- Willer, David
- World-Systems Theory
- Wright, Erik Olin
- Wuthnow, Robert
- Žižek, Slavoj
- Znaniecki, Florian Witold.
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7. The McDonaldization of society [2004]
- Ritzer, George.
- Rev. new century ed. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Pine Forge Press, 2004.
- Description
- Book — xiv, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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- Preface
- 1. An Introduction to McDonaldization McDonalds as a Global Icon The Long Arm of McDonaldization The Dimensions of McDonaldization The Advantages of McDonaldization A Critique of McDonaldization: The Irrationality of Rationality What Isn't McDonaldized McDonald's Troubles: Implications for McDonaldization A Look Ahead
- 2. McDonaldization and Its Precursors: From the Iron Cage to the Fast-Food Industry Bureaucratization: Making Life More Rational The Holocaust: Mass-Produced Death Scientific Management: Finding the One Best Way The Assembly Line: Turning Workers Into Robots Levittown: Putting Up Houses - "Boom, Boom, Boom" Shopping Centers: Malling America McDonald's: Creating the "Fast-Food Factory" Conclusion
- 3. Efficiency: Drive-Throughs and Finger Foods Streamlining the Process Simplifying the Product Putting Customers to Work Conclusion
- 4. Calculability: Big Macs and Little Chips Emphasizing Quantity Rather Than Quality of Products Giving the Illusion of Quantity Reducing Production and Service to Number Conclusion
- 5. Predictability: It Never Rains on Those Little Houses on the Hillside Creating Predictable Settings Scripting Ineraction With Customers Making Employee Behavior Predictable Creating Predictable Products and Processes Minimizing Danger and Unpleasantness Conclusion
- 6. Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots Controlling Employees Controlling Customers Controlling the Process and the Product The Ultimate Experience of Control? Birth and Death Conclusion
- 7. The Irrationality of Rationality: Traffic Jams on Those "Happy Trails" Inefficiency: Long Lines at the Checkout High Cost: Better Off at Home The Illusion of Fun: Ha, Ha, the Stock Market Just Crashed The Illusion of Reality: Even the "Singers" Aren't Real False Friendliness: "Hi, George" Disenchantment: Where's the Magic Health and Environmental Hazards: Even Your Pets Are at Risk Homogenization: It's No Different in Paris Dehumanization: Getting Hosed at "Trough and Brew" Conclusion
- 8. Globalization and McDonaldization: Does It All Amount to... Nothing? Globalization McDonaldization and Grobalization Nothing-Somthing and McDonaldization Nothing-Something and Grobalization-Glocalization The Case for McDonaldization as an Example of the Glocalization of Something The Case for McDonaldization as an Example of the Grobalization of Nothing Conclusion
- 9. McDonaldization in a Changing World: Are There Any Limits? The Forces Driving McDonaldization: It Pays, We Value It, It Fits Other Major Social Changes: McDonaldization in the Era of the "Posts" Are There Any Limits to the Expansion of McDonaldization? Looking to the Future: De-McDonaldization? Conclusion
- 10. Dealing With McDonaldization: A Practical Guide Creating "Reasonable" Alternatives: Sometimes You Really Do Have to Break the Rules Fighting Back Collectively: Saving Hearts, Minds, Taste Buds, and the Piazza di Spagna Coping Individually: " Skunk Works, " Blindfolded Children, and Fantasy Worlds Conclusion Index About the Author.
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- Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2003.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 436 pages).
- Summary
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- Preface. List of Contributors. Introduction: Narratives, Geistesgeschichtes, and the History of Social Theory (Doug J. Goodman).
- 1. Auguste Comte (Mary Pickering).
- 2. Harriet Martineau (Susan Hoecker-Drysdale).
- 3. Herbert Spencer (Jonathan H. Turner).
- 4. Karl Marx (Robert J. Antonio).
- 5. Max Weber (Stephen Kalberg).
- 6. Emile Durkheim (Robert Alun Jones).
- 7. Georg Simmel (Lawrence Scaff).
- 8. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Charles Lemert).
- 9. George Herbert Mead (Dimitri N. Shalin).
- 10. W.E.B. DuBois (Charles Lemert).
- 11. Alfred Schutz (Mary Rogers).
- 12. Talcott Parsons (Victor Lidz). Index.
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The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists. Contributors discuss the social and intellectual context of the theorists' writings, and offer an analysis of their impact over time. Each chapter balances systematic treatment of a particular theorist with personal interpretations of the theorist's work. Edited by a leading figure in social theory, this Companion offers an indispensable resource and reference to the life and times of the thinkers who have tried to make sense of our social surroundings. Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social theorists. Covers the key figures who shaped social theory, such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim, as well as additional classical theorists such as Harriet Martineau and W. E. B. Du Bois. Essays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and the impact of the thinker's work on social theory generally. Includes bibliographies of the theorist's most important works as well as key secondary works. Can be used in conjunction with The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists, edited by George Ritzer, for a complete reference source in social theory.
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- Maldem, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2003.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages .).
- Summary
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- Preface. List Of Contributors. Introduction: Metatheorizing Contemporary Social Theorists: Todd Stillman.
- 1. Robert K. Merton: Piotr Sztompka.
- 2. Erving Goffman: Gary Alan Fine And Philip Manning.
- 3. Richard M. Emerson: Karen S. Cook And Joseph Whitmeyer.
- 4. James Coleman: Siegwart Lindenberg.
- 5. Harold Garfinkel: Anne Rawls.
- 6. Daniel Bell: Malcolm Waters.
- 7. Norbert Elias: Richard Kilminster And Stephen Mennell.
- 8. Michael Foucault: Barry Smart.
- 9. Jurgen Habermas: William Outhwaite.
- 10. Anthony Giddens: Christopher G. A. Bryant And David Jary.
- 11. Pierre Bourdieu: Craig Calhoun.
- 12. Jean Baudrillard: Douglas Kellner.
- 13. Judith Butler: Patricia T. Clough. Index.
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The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Giddens, and Butler. * Includes 13 original essays by leading scholars on major contemporary social theorists. * Covers key figures such as Elias, Goffman, Foucault, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Butler. * Essays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and the impact of the thinker's work on social theory generally. * Includes bibliographies of the theorist's most important works as well as key secondary works. * Can be used in conjunction with The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists, edited by George Ritzer, for a complete reference source in social theory.
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- Ritzer, George.
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
- Description
- Book — 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) Digital: data file.
- Summary
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- PART ONE: METATHEORIZING Metatheorizing in Sociology The Delineation of an Underlying Architectonic Sociology A Multiple Paradigm Science Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm Image of the Subject Matter Potential Examplars 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 PART TWO: RATIONALIZATION THEORY 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.
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- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2000.
- Description
- Book — xvi, 800 p. ; 26 cm.
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- Ritzer, George.
- Rev. ed. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c1996.
- Description
- Book — xxi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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The fast-food business, most notably Mcdonal ds, revolutionised not only the restaurant business but also American society and ultimately, the world. Using the model of Mcdonalds, the author draws on the theories of Weber to produce a social critique. '.
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- Ritzer, George.
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c1993.
- Description
- Book — xv, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
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14. Metatheorizing [1992]
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage, c1992.
- Description
- Book — 178 p.
- Summary
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- Metatheorizing in Sociology - George Ritzer Explaining the Coming of Age Traditions and Competition - Jeffrey C Alexander and Paul Colomy Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation Metatheory, Conceptual Standardization, and the Future of Sociology - Walter L Wallace Pathways to Metatheory - Edward A Tiryakian Rethinking the Presuppositions of Macrosociology Metatheorizing Historical Rupture - Robert J Antonio and Douglas Kellner Classical Theory and Modernity A Working Strategy for Constructing Theories - Joseph Berger, David G Wagner and Morris Zelditch, Jr State Organizing Processes Sociological Metatheory and its Cultured Despisers - Charles Lemert The Postmodern Discourse of Metatheory - Deena Weinstein and Michael A Weinstein Relativism and Reflexivity in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge - Stephan Fuchs.
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(source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Online
15. Metatheorizing in sociology [1991]
- Ritzer, George.
- Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1991.
- Description
- Book — xi, 362 p. ; 24 cm.
- Online
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1990.
- Description
- Book — viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
- Online
17. Sociology, experiencing changing societies [1990]
- Kammeyer, Kenneth C. W.
- 4th ed. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1990.
- Description
- Book — xxi, 744 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
- Online
Education Library (Cubberley)
Education Library (Cubberley) | Status |
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Curriculum Collection | |
HM51 .R46 1990 | Unknown |
18. Contemporary sociological theory [1988]
- Ritzer, George.
- 2nd ed. - New York : Knopf, c1988.
- Description
- Book — xiv, 462 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Online
- Ritzer, George.
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1981.
- Description
- Book — viii, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
- Online
SAL3 (off-campus storage)
SAL3 (off-campus storage) | Status |
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Stacks | Request |
HM24 .R495 | Available |
20. Sociology : a multiple paradigm science [1985]
- Ritzer, George.
- Rev. ed. - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1980.
- Description
- Book — 292 p. ; 24 cm.
- Online
SAL3 (off-campus storage)
SAL3 (off-campus storage) | Status |
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Stacks | Request |
HM24 .R494 1980A | Available |