Classical Sociological Theory - Brossura

Ritzer, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007352817X ISBN 13: 9780073528175

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Riassunto

The fifth edition of Classical Sociological Theory by George Ritzer, one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major classical 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 authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.

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L'autore:

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence award by the American Sociological Association, and in 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by LaTrobe University, Melborune, Australia. He has served as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sections on Theoretical Sociology and organizations and Occupations. He held the UNESCO Chair in Social Theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Fulbright-Hay Chair at York University in Canada, and a Fulbright-Hays award to the Netherlands. He has been Scholar-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Dr. Ritzer's main theoretical interests lie in metatheory as well as applied social theory. In metatheory, his contributions include Metatheorizing in Sociology(Lexington Books, 1991), Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science (Allyn and Bacon, 1975, 1980), and Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (Allyn and Bacon). Professor Ritzer is perhaps best known for the McDonaldization of Society (4/e, 2004); translated into more than a dozen languages) and several related books (also with a number of translations, including Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995), Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (2/e, 2005),The Globalization of Nothing (2/e, 2007), and (with Craig Lair) Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond. He edited the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), and is the founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. He just completed editing the eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007). In 2006, McGraw-Hill published the second edition of Professor Ritzer's Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classic Roots: The Basics. In 2007, McGraw-Hill will publish the seventh edition of Modern Sociological Theory, and the fifth edition of Classical Sociological Theory. The latter texts, as well as this one, have been translated into a number of languages.

Contenuti:

Biographical and Autobiographical Sketches

Preface

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

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

Chapter 2. A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years

PART II: CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Chapter 3. Alexis de Tocqueville

Chapter 4. August Comte

Chapter 5. Herbert Spencer

Chapter 6. Karl Marx

Chapter 7. Emile Durkheim

Chapter 8. Max Weber

Chapter 9. Georg Simmel

Chapter 10. Early Women Sociologists and Classical Sociological Theory, 1830-1930

Chapter 11. W.E.B. DuBois

Chapter 12. Thorstein Veblen

Chapter 13. Karl Mannheim

Chapter 14. George Herbert Mead

Chapter 15. Alfred Schutz

Chapter 16. Talcott Parsons

References

Permissions Acknowlegments

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 007352817X
• ISBN 13: 9780073528175
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 480