George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.

Metatheorizing in Sociology - George Ritzer
Explaining the Coming of Age
Traditions and Competition - Jeffrey C Alexander and Paul Colomy
Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation
Metatheory, Conceptual Standardization, and the Future of Sociology - Walter L Wallace
Pathways to Metatheory - Edward A Tiryakian
Rethinking the Presuppositions of Macrosociology
Metatheorizing Historical Rupture - Robert J Antonio and Douglas Kellner
Classical Theory and Modernity
A Working Strategy for Constructing Theories - Joseph Berger, David G Wagner and Morris Zelditch, Jr
State Organizing Processes
Sociological Metatheory and its Cultured Despisers - Charles Lemert
The Postmodern Discourse of Metatheory - Deena Weinstein and Michael A Weinstein
Relativism and Reflexivity in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge - Stephan Fuchs