McDonaldization : the reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ritzer, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, [2006]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • McDonaldization: basics, studies, applications, and extensions
  • An introduction to McDonaldization / George Ritzer
  • Precursors : bureaucracy and Max Weber's theory of rationality, irrationality, and the iron cage / George Ritzer
  • Islands of the living dead: the social geography of McDonaldization / George Ritzer
  • On mass distribution : a case study of chain stores in the restaurant industry / Joel I. Nelson
  • A sociology of rib joints / P.D. Holley and D.E. Wright, Jr.
  • McDonald's as a Disneyized institution / Alan Bryman
  • Urgent dreams : climbing, rationalization, and ambivalence / Ian Heywood
  • A conversation with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast food nation
  • The real price of a Big Mac : filmmaker Morgan Spurlock discusses life as a guinea pig / Biran Braiker
  • McDonaldization : the major criticisms / Bryan S. Turner
  • The McDonaldization of social structures and institutions
  • McDonaldization of America's police, courts, and corrections / Mathew B. Robinson
  • McDonaldization of the sex industries? the business of sex / Kathryn Hausbeck and Barbara G. Brents
  • McDonaldization and the family / Sarah Raley
  • What do hamburgers and drug care have in common? : some unorthodox remarks on the McDonaldization and rationality of drug care / Uwe E. Kemmesies
  • McMorals revisited: creating irrational characters? / Suzanne S. Hudd
  • The McDonaldization of the Internet / Alan Neustadtl and Meyer Kestnbaum
  • McJobs: McDonaldization and its relationship to the labor process
  • George Ritzer
  • McWork in Europe / Tony Royle
  • Supersizing farms : the McDonaldization of agriculture / Andrew J. Knight
  • From creeds to burgers : religious control, spiritual search, and the future of the world / John Drane
  • McCitizens : risk, coolness, and irony in contemporary politics / Bryan S. Turner
  • Cathedrals of consumption : rationalization, enchantment, and disenchantment / George Ritzer
  • McDonaldization and the global sports store : constructing consumer meanings in a rationalized society / Steven Miles
  • Credit cards, fast-food restaurants, and rationalization / George Ritzer
  • Cross-cultural analysis, social movements, and social change
  • Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin R. Barber
  • September 11, 2001 : mass murder and its roots in the symbolism of American consumer culture / George Ritzer
  • The McLibel trial story / McSpotlight
  • Mcspotlight
  • Striking the golden arches : French farmers protest McD's globalization / David Morse
  • Slow food / Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdock
  • The debate over the relationship between McDonaldization and globalization
  • Globalization and culture : three paradigms / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
  • McDonaldization and the global culture of consumption / Malcolm Waters
  • Transnationalism, localization, and fast foods in East Asia / James L. Watson
  • The McDdonald's mosaic : glocalization and diversity
  • Bryan S. Turner
  • Domesticating the french fry: McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow / Melissa L. Caldwell
  • Global implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization / Alan Bryman
  • Glocommodification : how the global consumes the local--McDonald's in Israel / Uri Ram
  • Globalization and McDonaldization : does it all amount to-- nothing? / George Ritzer
  • Globaloney / Michael Veseth
  • Conclusion
  • Some thoughts on the future of McDonaldization / George Ritzer.