Resisting McDonaldization
by Smart, Barry
George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a critical appraisal of the thesis. The contributors discuss the roots of the thesis, the rationalization of late modern life, the effects of increasing cultural commodification, the continuing prominence of American cultural and …
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George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a critical appraisal of the thesis. The contributors discuss the roots of the thesis, the rationalization of late modern life, the effects of increasing cultural commodification, the continuing prominence of American cultural and economic imperialism and the impact of globalization on social and cultural life. The strengths and w.
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- Publication Date:1999.
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- Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780857026187, 0857026186, 1446235637, 9781446235638, 0761955178, 9780761955177, 1282623001, 9781282623002, 9786612623004, 6612623004
- oclc:ocn638860846
- LC Classification:HF5415.32.R475 1999
- Dewey Decimal:303.482
Table of Contents
Cover; Table of Contents; 1 -- Resisting McDonaldization: Theory, Process and Critique; 2 -- Golden Arches and Iron Cages: McDonaldization and the Poverty of Cultural Pessimism at the End of the Twentieth Century; 3 -- Have You Had Your Theory Today?; 4 -- McDonaldization Enframed; 5 -- Rich Food: McDonald's and Modern Life; 6 -- McCitizens: Risk, Coolness and Irony in Contemporary Politics; 7 -- Theme Parks and McDonaldization; 8 -- The McDonaldization of Sport and Leisure; 9 -- McDonalized Culture: The End of Communication?
10 -- Art Centres: Southern Folk Art and the Splintering of a Hegemonic Market11 -- Dennis Hopper, McDonald's and Nike; 12 -- Theorizing/Resisting McDonaldization: A Multiperspectivist Approach; 13 -- The Moral Malaise of McDonaldization: The Values of Vegetarianism; 14 -- McFascism?: Reading Ritzer, Bauman and the Holocaust; 15 -- Assessing the Resistance; Index.
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