About the Editor
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland . He was awarded the 2000 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University.
He has authored more than 25 books, including: The Globalization of Nothing (2004), McDonaldization: The Reader (2002), Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (1999; 2005), The McDonaldization Thesis (1998), Expressing America (1995), The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 1996, 2000, 2004), Metatheorizing in Sociology (1991), Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (1981), and Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science (1975).
He is editor of a two-volume Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Handbook of Social Theory (2001; with Barry Smart), and The Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (2000), and is co-founding editor (with Don Slater) of the Journal of Consumer Culture. Two volumes of his collected works have been published: Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization and Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food Restaurants, Credit Cards and Casinos (2001).
