ジョージ・リッツァ
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ジョージ・リッツァ(George Ritzer, 1940年 - )は、アメリカ合衆国の社会学者。メリーランド大学社会学部教授。
ミシガン大学で修士号、コーネル大学で博士号を取得。チューレーン大学助教授、カンザス大学准教授を経て、1974年から現職。
マクドナルドの経営理念とそれを象徴する合理化が現代社会にあらゆる場所に浸透していることを指摘し、それをマクドナルド化(en:McDonaldization)と名づけたことで知られる。
著書
単著
- Man and his Work: Conflict and Change, (Prentice-Hall, 1972).
- Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science, (Allyn and Bacon, 1975).
- Toward An Integrated Sociological Paradigm: the Search for an Exemplar and an Image of the Subject Matter, (Allyn and Bacon, 1981).
- Sociological Theory, (Knopf, 1983).
- Metatheorizing in Sociology, (Lexington Books, 1991).
- Classical Sociological Theory, (McGraw-Hill, 1992).
- The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life, (Pine Forge Press, 1993).
- Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology, (McGraw-Hill, 1994).
- Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, (Pine Forge Press, 1995).
- Postmodern Social Theory, (McGraw-Hill, 1997).
- The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions, (Sage, 1998).
- 正岡寛司監訳『マクドナルド化の世界――そのテーマは何か?』(早稲田大学出版部, 2001年)
- Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption, (Pine Forge Press, 1999, 2nd ed., 2005).
- Explorations in Social Theory: from Metatheorizing to Rationalization, (Sage, 2001).
- Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption : Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos, (Sage, 2001).
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and its Classical Roots: the Basics, (McGraw-Hill, 2003, 2nd ed., 2007).
- The Globalization of Nothing, (Pine Forge Press, 2004).
- 正岡寛司監訳『無のグローバル化――拡大する消費社会と「存在」の喪失』(明石書店, 2005年)
共著
- An Occupation in Conflict: A Study of the Personnel Manager, with Harrison M. Trice, (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1969).
- Sociology, Experiencing a Changing Society, with Kenneth C.W. Kammeyer and Norman R. Yetman, (Allyn and Bacon, 1987).
編著
- Issues, Debates and Controversies: An Introduction to Sociology, (Allyn and Bacon, 1972).
- Frontiers of Social Theory: the New Syntheses, (Columbia University Press, 1990).
- Metatheorizing, (Sage, 1992).
- The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, (Blackwell, 2000).
- McDonaldization: the Reader, (Pine Forge Press, 2002, 2nd ed., 2006).
- The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists, (Blackwell, 2003).
- Handbook of Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective, (Sage, 2004).
- Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (Sage, 2005).
- The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, (Blackwell, 2007).
- The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, (Blackwell, 2007).