The seventh edition of Modern Sociological Theory by George Ritzer, one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major contemporary 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 and helps them appreciate the diversity of contemporary theory.
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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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good textbook,
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Ritzer writes some original theory but he is mainly known for his many textbooks. This one is comprehensive and has useful summaries and evaluations.
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I am currently a student who has to use this book and absolutely hate it. Ritzer does not know the meaning of concise, and will say the same thing ten different ways. He will also repeat things in multiple places when they don't really need to be repeated. Also, with the exception of a couple chapters, this book is incredibly dry and boring. Overall I find it difficult to read and would have preferred something different. The class is hard enough without having to read what has to be the most boring textbook I have ever read. I know it's a textbook and not a work of fiction, but every other textbook I have had since I started college is at least somewhat interesting to read. It's not the subject matter either (which is really interesting) this book is just that dry and dull.
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Presenting a history of sociological theory is an important task (S. Turner, 1998), but because we devote only two chapters (1 and 2) to it, what we offer is a highly selective historical sketch (Giddens, 1995). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Presenting a history of sociological theory is an important task (S. Turner, 1998), but because we devote only two chapters (1 and 2) to it, what we offer is a highly selective historical sketch (Giddens, 1995). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Talcott Parsons, Max Weber, Industrial Revolution, University of Chicago, Georg Simmel, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, New York, Erving Goffman, Jean Baudrillard, Jurgen Habermas, George Herbert Mead, Soviet Union, Wright Mills, Auguste Comte, Fredric Jameson, French Revolution, George Homans, Hegelian Marxism, Herbert Spencer, Las Vegas, Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Harold Garfinkel New!
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