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Sociological Beginnings: On The Origins of Key Ideas In Sociology

George Ritzer

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On beginnings in the beginning - the founding of sociology the beginnings of a sociologist - a brief biographical sketch of Max Weber the beginnings of a sociological school - Chicago Sociology from 1892 to 1935 methodological and theoretical beginnings - the Chicago School, participant observation and symbolic interactionism the emergence of a sociological specialty - the case of the sociology of work the beginnings of a sociological idea-I - McDonaldization the beginnings of a sociological idea-II - hyperrationality new beginnings - sociology today and tomorrow.

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Key concepts: Sociology, Sociological imagination, Symbolic interactionism, History of sociology, Interactionism, Sociological theory, Sketch, Sociological research