George Ritzer Sociology Theory Fifth Edition By Rawat Publications Original Book English Medium

George Ritzer Sociology Theory Fifth Edition By Rawat Publications Original Book English Medium
Total Pages:-769
One Booklet
Author George Ritzer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His major areas of interest are sociological theory and the sociology of consumption. He has served as Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Sections on Theoretical Sociology (1989-1990) and Organizations and Occupations (1980-1981). Professor Ritzer has been Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland and has been awarded a Teaching Excellence award. He has held the UNESCO chair in Social Theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a fulbright-Hays Fellowship. He has been Scholar-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences.

Contents
Part-I. Classical Sociological Theory
1. A Historical Sketch of sociological Theory: The Early Years
2. Karl Marx
3. Emile Durkheim
4. Max Weber
5. Georg Simmel

Part-II. Modern Sociological Theory : The Major Schools
6. A Historical sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years
7. Structural Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, And Conflict Theory
8. Varieties Of Neo-Marxian Theory
9. Systems Theory
10. Symbolic Interactionism
11. Ethnomethodology
12. Exchange, Network, And Rational Choice Theories
13. Contemporary Feminist Theory By Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley

Part3. Recent Intergrative Developments In Sociological TheoryRitz
14. Micro-Macro Integration
15. Agency-Structure Intergration

Part4. From Modern To Postmodern Social Theory (And Beyond)
16. Contemporary Theories of Modernity
17. Structuralism, Poststructuralism, And The emergence of Postmodern Social Theory
Appendix – Sociological Metatheorizing And A Metatheoretical Schema For Analyzing Sociological Theory