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The McDonaldization of society : into the digital age / George Ritzer, University of Maryland. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, (c)2021.Edition: Tenth editionDescription: xi, 217 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781544398013
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HM706.R615.M336 2021
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  • COPYRIGHT: covered - CIU has obtained rights for you to copy and share this title in electronic or print format with students, faculty, and staff.
Contents:
Predictability and control: consumers 2 -- Efficiency and calculability: McJobs and other McDonaldized occupations 2 -- Irrationality: the basic dimensions -- Epilogue: McDonaldization in the age of COVID-19.
Subject: "The McDonaldization of Society is George Ritzer's seminal work of critical sociology that updates and applies Max Weber's rationalization thesis to the the late 20th and early 21st century. The central premise of McDonaldization is that the fast food restaurant has become the model for the rationalization process today, creating a system of operation based on efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control that has been adopted across a wide ranges of businesses, organizations, and social institutions"--
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Efficiency and calculability: consumers 1 -- Predictability and control: consumers 2 -- Efficiency and calculability: McJobs and other McDonaldized occupations 2 -- Irrationality: the basic dimensions -- Epilogue: McDonaldization in the age of COVID-19.

"The McDonaldization of Society is George Ritzer's seminal work of critical sociology that updates and applies Max Weber's rationalization thesis to the the late 20th and early 21st century. The central premise of McDonaldization is that the fast food restaurant has become the model for the rationalization process today, creating a system of operation based on efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control that has been adopted across a wide ranges of businesses, organizations, and social institutions"--

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