Classical Sociological Theory 6th Edition
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- ASIN : 0078026652
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education; 6th edition (April 19, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 608 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780078026652
- ISBN-13 : 978-0078026652
- Item Weight : 1.68 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.4 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,318 in Sociology (Books)
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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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It is VERY VERY dry, but it's classical sociological theory, so you're going to find that regardless. Still, it provides details that can make the original texts much more approachable and give an idea what you're supposed to be getting out of it where you might otherwise be stuck with a big "okay, so...?" from the original texts.
Do yourself a favor and give this book a chance even if at first it is difficult. Sometimes it takes reading the passages in it, the source material, and then back again before stuff clicks, but it worth the effort if you need to do well with classical theory.
First and foremost, I can't read this "Kindle book" on a Kindle! Not even on my iPad, Which leaves me with my 7lbs laptop as the most portable option.
Second, even as a desktop/laptop only ebook it's a poor one at that. The pages don't reflow or resize, I can only zoom in and zoom out. Its nothing more than a high-priced pdf. And even then, there should at least be some of those nice pdf options such as clickable content in the table of contents to jump to corresponding sections or links in the index to their corresponding sections of the book. Dollars to doughnuts I bet someone at the publishing company clicked "Save As pdf" and sent it over to Amazon as the extent of the care and attention this content received as an electronic publication. It is clear that much more care, time, and attention was paid by the publishing company on how to saddle this book with onerous limitations.
I don't need an expensive and yet non-portable, featureless non-kindle kindle book, I'll just buy a physical copy of the 4th edition for $1.89 plus 3.99 for shipping.