books by George Ritzer

books by George Ritzer

books:

George Ritzer

Modern Sociological Theory
George Ritzer, Douglas J. Goodman

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

With one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory as lead author, this best-selling text gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary schools of sociological thought. Beginning with a synopsis of the formative years and concluding with the emergence of postmodern (and even post-post modern) social theory, it ...

Multicultural Experiences, Multicultural Theories

Mcgraw-Hill College, 1995

This reader in multicultural social theory provides selections from a wide range of multicultural theorists that include Feminist, Queer, Afrocentric, Native American, Chicana, and Asian American perspectives. Rogers begins with an Introduction , then breaks the 38 readings into seven thematic sections, beginning each section with an essay ...

The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life

George Ritzer

Pine Forge Press, 1995

Comedy, Political Theory, Social Theory Rolled Into One
Finally someone to critique this whole SUV-driving,fast-food gobbling, ATM, credit-card debting, Banana Republic we have created... This book, for me, almost read like a comedy, especially when Ritzer describes the "iron cage of McDonaldization" - how devices that ...

Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics
George Ritzer

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006

This text is the teaching solution for instructors who need a brief, accessible text for sociological theory. An affordable alternative to a standard text, this volume still includes a range of pedagogical features; it is concise yet comprehensive, informative, and engaging for a wide range of students.

Classical Sociological Theory

George Ritzer

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007

Sociological Theory
This book was in excellent condition considering that it is used. I was very impressed with the rate of delivery.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

The BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIOLOGY is published in both print and online. Arranged across eleven volumes in A-Z format, it is the definitive reference source for students, researchers, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the ...

Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption

George Ritzer

Pine Forge Press, 2004

Thoughtful and perceptive
This book changed the way I view my own habits of consumption. I found his analysis of contemporary trends in consumption interesting and provocative. Also interesting was his conclusion that as people grow accustomed to the new means of consumption that they have to ...

Sociological Theory

George Ritzer, Douglas J. Goodman

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

Excellent as a standard book for theory
I used this book in its 4th edition as an undergraduate and I am very glad I kept it, because I used it extensively in my graduate theory class last semester. Ritzer makes it easy to understand and appreciate the classical theorists and I would highly recommend it as ...

The Globalization of Nothing 2

George Ritzer

Pine Forge Press, 2007

Ritzer's Best, by far
This is a thoughtful, rich, critical, engaging analysis. I was pleasantly surprised. I had major problems with his famous McDonalization of Society -- I thought it was pretty thin, extremely redundant, and gave short-shrift to the profit motive. Furthermore, Ritzer ...

The McDonaldization of Society 5

George Ritzer

Pine Forge Press, 2007

The grobalization of nothing
McDonalds's is G. Ritzer's perfect paradigm for explaining the actual structure of our planet. He has built his portrait on Max Weber's rationalization concept. This concept expresses man's search for the optimum means to a given end by rules, regulations and larger ...

Postmodern Social Theory
George Ritzer

Mcgraw-Hill College, 1996

George Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable and coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas and most important thinkers in postmodern social theory. Looking at this multidisciplinary field from a sociological perspective, Ritzer offers a modernist reading of the turbulent and often renegade world of postmodern ...

The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists provides a comprehensive review of classical social theory. Containing original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 12 major theorists. Includes 12 original essays by leading scholars on major classical social ...

McDonaldization: The Reader

Pine Forge Press, 2006

perhaps the Internet is a countertrend
Ritzer offers the loaded term McDonaldization as anything that takes after McDonald's Corporation. Four precepts are given - efficiency, calculability, predictability and automatic control. This book searches human society for examples that satisfy these precepts. A ...

Handbook of Social Theory

Sage Publications Ltd, 2003

This book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the roots, current debates and future development of social theory. It draws together a team of international scholars, and presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the field. The first section, examines the classical tradition. Included here are critical ...

Encyclopedia of Social Theory

Sage Publications, Inc, 2004

Click 'Additional Materials' for downloadable samples The Encyclopedia of Social Theory is an indispensable reference source for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary social theory. It examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their ...