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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics
George Ritzer, University of Maryland
Modern Grand Theories

Web Links

The Marxist Archive
(http://www.marxists.org)

This site includes bio sketches and excerpts from a long list of significant Marxists. Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Habermas are all represented. The site includes an excerpt on the culture industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Fordism, Post-Fordism, and the Flexible System of Production
(http://www.willamette.edu/~fthompso/MgmtCon/Fordism_%26_Postfordism.html)

Fred Thompson's concise hypertext introduction to Fordism, Post-Fordism, and the Flexible System of Production. This site includes information on diverse topics such as Prussian Bureaucracy and the automated workplace.
Norbert Elias and Process Sociology
(http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/elias/eliasframe.html)

The Norbert Elias and Process Sociology website is the online home of Figurations: The Newsletter of the Norbert Elias Foundation. The newsletter documents the publication of Eliasian scholarship around the world. The site also includes interviews with Elias, articles on the civilizing process, and links.
The Fernand Braudel Center
(http://fbc.binghamton.edu)

Immanuel Wallerstein directs the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations at SUNY Binghamton. The Center specializes in the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of time. The website includes an in-house journal, Review, and bi-weekly commentaries on world events by Wallerstein.
The Jurgen Habermas Web Resource
(http://www.msu.edu/user/robins11/habermas/)

The Jurgen Habermas Web Resource is an introduction to the range of Habermas's thought for students. It includes entries on the public sphere, discourse ethics, and modernity.
Anthony Giddens's Homepage
(http://www.lse.ac.uk/Giddens)

In addition to being a renowned social theorist, Anthony Giddens is the director of the London School of Economics. His website includes a set of lectures on the "Runaway World," broadcast by the BBC in 1999.
Introduction to Anthony Giddens
(http://www.theory.org.uk/giddens.htm)

This is a short introduction to the range of Giddens's thought, including entries on structuration and modernity.
McDonaldization.com
(http://www.mcdonaldization.com)

This site is dedicated to understanding the consequences of the McDonaldization of Society.
McSpotlight
(http://www.mcspotlight.org)

This site has a running critique of the McDonald's Corporation, including archived coverage of Britain's McLibel trial.
The Globalization Website
(http://www.emory.edu/SOC/globalization/issues06.html)

The Globalization Website includes a glossary of terms, a summary of important debates on globalization, a review of theories of globalization, and bio sketches of "global actors" like Henry Kissinger and George Soros. Designed by Frank Lechner.
The Global Policy Forum
(http://www.globalpolicy.org)

The Global Policy Forum monitors policymaking at the United Nations. The site includes commentary on social and economic issues, state sovereignty, and the role of NGO's.








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