George Ritzer - Ritzer's Main Ideas

Ritzer's Main Ideas

Although known as a sociologist, Ritzer has never received a degree in sociology proper. As Ritzer said in a later interview “I basically trained myself as a social theorist, and so I had to learn it all as I went.” Furthermore, Ritzer found that not being trained in social theory was advantageous for him, simply because his reasoning was not limited to a particular theoretical perspective.

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