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 | Sociological Theory, 6th Edition
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 | | George Ritzer, University of Maryland---College Park
Douglas J. Goodman, UNIV OF PUGET SOUND
| | Hardcover, 784 pages | | ©2004, ISBN-13 9780072817188 | |
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| | | Description |
With one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory as lead author, this best-selling text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major classical theorists and contemporary schools of sociological thought. Spanning the history of sociological theory from its inception to the latest theoretical developments, it integrates key theories with biographical sketches of theorists, placing readings in context and helping students understand the original works of classical authors as well as compare and contrast the newest substantive theories.
The thoroughly updated sixth edition reflects current debates in sociology and includes new sections on Actor-Network theory, neo-Marxian theories of space, and more!
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| Table of Contents |
PART 1: 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 2: 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 3: Recent Integrative Developments in Sociological Theory
Chapter 14: Micro-Macro Integration
Chapter 15: Agency-Structure Integration
PART 4: From Modern to Postmodern Social Theory (and Beyond)
Chapter 16: Contemporary Theories of Modernity
Chapter 17: Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and the Emergence of Postmodern Social Theory
Appendix: Sociological Metatheorizing and a Metatheoretical Schema for Analyzing Sociological Theory
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| About the Authors |
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.
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| New Features |
A new section on Actor-Network theory (in Chapter 17), showing how sociologists such as Bruno Latour are using some of the abstract ideas from post-structural theory
Material discussing the chaos in theory and the disappearance of identifiable schools (in the Appendix)
New section on globalization in Chapter 16.
New section on Neo-Marxian theories of space (in Chapter 8), including discussions of Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja and David Harvey
Revised chapter on Marx, including more examples and historical context, and focusing more on exploitation and on Marx's materialist conception of history
More coverage of the roots of modern theory in such previously under-recognized theorists as DuBois (in the introduction)
All chapters updated to include current research on classical and contemporary theory and theorists.
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