Электронная книга: George Ritzer «Globalization. A Basic Text»
Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team Издательство: "John Wiley&Sons Limited"
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George Ritzer
George Ritzer (born 1940) is Distinguished University Professor at the
Early life and career
Ritzer was born and raised in New York City. The eldest of two boys, his was a self-described “upper lower class” Jewish family supported by his father’s work as a taxi cab driver and his mother’s as a secretary. Ritzer graduated from the highly selective
Although he never pursued a degree in sociology, Ritzer’s early academic career was remarkably accelerated. Having served as Assistant Professor of Sociology at
Main publications
Ritzer is prolific. He has published 12 monographs and 7 textbooks, many of the latter, especially, in numerous multiple editions. He has also edited 11 various professional volumes, 3 encyclopedias (including the massive "Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology" forthcoming in 2006), and authored roughly 100 scholarly articles in referred journals. Review of Ritzer’s record of publication is therefore profitably divided by topic and type.
McDonaldization
Ritzer’s “
Consumption
An early admirer of
Globalization
Generally referring to the rapidly increasing world-wide integration and interdependence of societies and cultures, Ritzer’s aforementioned "The Globalization of Nothing" (2004) stakes out a provocative perspective in the on-going and voluminous globalization discourse. For Ritzer, globalization typically leads to “loss amidst monumental abundance,” where consumption of vast quantities of serial social forms that have been centrally conceived and controlled –one McDonald’s hamburger, i.e., one instance of nothing again and again—dominates social life. In addition to the forthcoming second edition of "The Globalization of Nothing" (2007), see especially a special review symposium in the Sage journal "Thesis Eleven" (Number 76, February 2004).
Metatheory
Influenced by Thomas Kuhn’s "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962), Ritzer has long advocated for the view that social theory is improved by systematic, comparative and reflexive attention to implicit conceptual structures and oft-hidden assumptions. Infused with an integrating impulse that never, however, tips over into grand theory, Ritzer’s metatheorizing depicts and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of major and less common paradigmatic approaches to the conceptualization of society and culture. Key works include "Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science" (1975), "Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm" (1981), "Metatheorizing in Sociology" (1991), and "Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization" (2001). See also Ritzer’s edited "Metatheorizing" (1992).
Modern and postmodern social theory
Ritzer is known to generations of students as the author of numerous highly accessible, comprehensive introductions and compendia in social theory. As with several of Ritzer’s other principal works, many are translated into languages as diverse as Chinese, Russian, Persian, Hebrew and Portuguese. Key volumes in this genre include the "Encyclopedia of Social Theory" (2004), "Postmodern Social Theory" (1997), "Sociological Theory" (2004, 6th edition), "Classical Sociological Theory" (2004, 4th edition), and "Modern Sociological Theory" (2004, 6th edition). For Ritzer’s substantive contributions to modern and postmodern social theorizing, see again "Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization" (2001).
Criticism
Ritzer’s strengths as an original, accessible, and popular author have occasionally led his harshest critics to charge him with pandering to mass audiences by unreasonably reducing the complexity of the subjects that he addresses in order, presumably, to achieve record book sales. At a deeper level, Ritzer has also been accused of being too easily entwined with the very processes that he manifestly subjects to critical analysis, such that instead of Weber there is produced McWeber, so that Ritzer’s entertainingly cheeky analysis of globalization becomes much ado about nothing. Ritzer is also criticized by the Marxian left for failing to fully appreciate and embrace Marxian theories of alienation, reification, and the culture industry, that is, for failing to identify capitalism as the principal cause of “McDonaldization” and the growing worldwide preponderance of “nothing.” Ritzer has often responded to these and other criticisms. Key texts include the aforementioned "Resisting McDonaldization" (1999) and the review symposium in "Thesis Eleven" (February 2004).
Future work
A writer at heart, Ritzer shows no signs of reducing his publication output. As noted, Ritzer has written a substantially revised and expanded edition of "The Globalization of Nothing" (expected in 2007) and is the editor of the forthcoming "Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology", which numbers 11 volumes and is expected in December, 2006. Ritzer’s most current project is original theorizing on the significance of outsourcing.
External links
* [http://www.georgeritzer.com/ Ritzer’s official website]
* [http://www.georgeritzer.com/interviews.html Interviews]
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