Sociological Theory

Ritzer, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071284060 ISBN 13: 9780071284066

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

The seventh edition of Sociological Theory by George Ritzer, one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. Key theories are integrated with biographical sketches of theorists, and theories are placed in their historical and intellectual context. This helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.

L'autore:

George Ritzer 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 2000 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. He has served as Chair of two Sections of the American Sociological Association- Organizations and Occupations and Theoretical Sociology. In addition to The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 1996, 2000; translated into a dozen languages), his other efforts to apply social theory to the everyday realms of the economy and consumption include Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995), The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions (1998), and Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (1999). At the other end of the spectrum, his contributions to metatheorizing include Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science (1975), Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (1981), and Metatheorizing in Sociology (1991). He has recently edited The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (2000), as well as The Handbook of Social Theory (with Barry Smart), and is co-founding editor (with Don Slater) of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2001 Sage of England published two volumes of his collected works- Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization and Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food Restaurants, Credit Cards and Casinos. Among his forthcoming works are the Handbook of International Social Problems and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Social Theory. His next original book, The Globalization of Nothing: So Many Making So Much of So Little will be published in 2003. In 2002 McGraw-Hill published Ritzer’s Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics.

Contenuti:

PART I: Classical Sociological Theory

Chapter 1: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years

Chapter 2: Karl Marx

Chapter 3: Emile Durkheim

Chapter 4: Max Weber

Chapter 5: Georg Simmel

PART II: Modern Sociological Theory: The Major Schools

Chapter 6: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years

Chapter 7: Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and Conflict Theory

Chapter 8: Varieties of Neo-Marxian Theory

Chapter 9: Systems Theory

Chapter 10: Symbolic Interactionism

Chapter 11: Ethnomethodology

Chapter 12: Exchange, Network, and Rational Choice Theories

Chapter 13: Contemporary Feminist Theory

PART III: Recent Integrative Developments in Sociological Theory

Chapter 14: Micro-Macro Integration and Agency-Structure Integration

PART IV: From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond)

Chapter 15: Contemporary Theories of Modernity

Chapter 16: Globalization Theory

Chapter 17: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and the Emergence of Postmodern Social Theory

Appendix: Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory