The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-30

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00:00:47 1 Biography
00:00:56 1.1 Early life
00:01:47 1.2 Education and early employment
00:05:34 1.3 Academic employment
00:07:16 2 Main ideas
00:07:56 2.1 McDonaldization
00:14:17 2.2 Consumption
00:15:10 2.3 Prosumption
00:16:26 2.4 Something vs. nothing
00:17:45 2.5 Globalization
00:19:53 2.6 Grobalization
00:21:52 2.7 Glocalization
00:22:48 2.8 Metatheory
00:25:35 2.9 Modern and postmodern social theory
00:27:12 3 Bibliography
00:27:37 3.1 iSociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science/i (1975, 1980)
00:28:17 3.2 iToward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm/i (1981)
00:28:48 3.3 iThe McDonaldization of Society/i (1993)
00:29:48 3.4 iThe Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists/i (2003)
00:30:19 3.5 iThe McDonaldization of Society: 20th Anniversary Edition/i (2012)
00:31:25 3.6 iThe Globalization of Nothing/i, Second Edition (2007)
00:32:47 3.7 iEnchanting a Disenchanted World/i, Third Edition (2009)
00:34:18 4 Leadership roles
00:35:14 5 Awards and acknowledgements
00:36:15 6 Personal life
00:36:43 7 Bibliography
00:37:35 8 See also



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George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who studies globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern and postmodern social theory. His most notable contribution to date is his concept of McDonaldization, which draws upon Max Weber's idea of rationalization through the lens of the fast food industry. In addition to creating his own theories, Ritzer has also written many general sociology books, including Introduction to Sociology (2012) as well as Essentials to Sociology (2014), and modern and postmodern social theory textbooks. Currently, Ritzer is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.