Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-292) and index.
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Metatheorizing in sociology -- The deliniation of an underlying architectonic -- Sociology: a multiple paradigm science -- Toward an integrated sociological paradigm: image of the subject matter -- Potential exemplars for an integrated sociological paradigm -- Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology -- From exclusion to inclusion to chaos in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? -- The McDonaldization of American sociology: a metasociological analysis.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Ritzer offers a description of the sociological condition in this text. It contains reflections on uses and missuses of metatheory and finds a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of an integrated sociological paradigm.
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