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Informationen zum Autor George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader ; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World , The Globalization of Nothing , Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society , as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text . He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture . In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE. Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has longstanding research interests in the fields of social theory, political economy, and philosophy. His research interests include critical social research ethics; higher education; and collaborative work on veganism, ethics, lifestyle and environment. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - George Ritzer and Barry Smart Theorists, Theories and Theorizing PART ONE: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY Modernity, Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism - John Rundell Creating Social Theory The Origins of Positivism - Jonathan H Turner The Contributions of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer Maintaining Marx - Gregor McLennan Max Weber - Sam Whimster Work and Interpretation The Continuing Relevance of Georg Simmel - Birgitta Nedelmann Staking Out Anew the Field of Sociology Durkheim¿s Project for a Sociological Science - Mike Gane The Emergence of the New - Hans Joas Mead¿s Theory and Its Contemporary Potential Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge - David Kettler and Volker Meja Psychoanalysis and Sociology - John O¿Neill From Freudo-Marxism to Freudo-Feminism Classical Feminist Social Theory - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley PART TWO: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY Functional, Conflict and Neofunctional Theories - Mark Abrahamson Talcott Parsons - Robert J Holton Conservative Apologist or Irreplaceable Icon? Nietzsche - Robert J Antonio Social Theory in the Twilight of the Millennium Critical Theory - Craig Calhoun and Joseph Karaganis J[um]urgen Habermas¿ Theory of Communicative Action - Richard Harvey Brown and Douglas Goodman An Incomplete Project Symbolic Interactionism at the End of the Century - Kent L Sandstrom, Daniel D Martin and Gary Alan Fin...
