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		Image from Amazon.com	Modern sociological theory / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Edition: 5th ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: General; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2000 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (2)Call number: HM435 R579M 2000, ... Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	The McDonaldization of society : an investigation into the changing character of contemporary social life / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, 1993 Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Contemporary sociological theory and its classical roots : the basics / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Edition: 2nd ed. , McGraw-Hill international ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : McGraw Hill Higher Education, c2007 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM586 R579C 2007. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	The McDonaldization of society 6 / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, c2011 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM 706 R579M. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Sociological theory / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Edition: 4th ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, 1996 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM24 R579S 1996. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			The McDonaldization of society / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Edition: New century ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, 2000 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM 706 R579M. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Contemporary sociological theory and its classical roots : the basics / George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : McGraw Hill, c2003 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM586 R579C. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	McDonaldization : the reader / [edited by] George Ritzer by Ritzer, George Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2010 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HN 59.2 M326 2010. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Sociological theory / George Ritzer, Douglas J. Goodman by Ritzer, George Goodman, Douglas J Edition: 6th ed. , international ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Boston, Mass. : McGraw Hill, 2003 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM585 R579S 2004. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Frontiers of social theory : the new syntheses / George Ritzer, editor by Ritzer, George [ed.] University of Maryland at College Park. College of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Maryland (System). Graduate School University of Maryland at College Park. Deptartment of Sociology Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Columbia Univ. Press, c1990 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM421 F766. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)