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.
"On the whole, this will be a useful resource for beginning
researchers in the social sciences, or users requiring basic
definitions or biographies. Recommended for large public and
academic libraries."
*LIBRARY JOURNAL*
"Ritzer has assembled a wonderfully rich resource on social theory.
Any subject encyclopedia′s aims are to be on point, authoritative,
and intelligible, and to lead readers to further information;
Ritzer′s meets those aims. . . . Highly recommended."
*CHOICE*
This scholarly guide surveys the fundamental ideas of social theory
and the contributions of social theorists from the Enlightenment to
the present. . . . this useful guide provides an excellent starting
place for both student and scholar, and it is highly recommended
for academic libraries.
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