TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritzer,George
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Explorations in social theory: from metatheorizing to rationalization 
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  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10080954
ER  -