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Chapter 2: Efficiency and Calculability: Consumers 1. Skip to main content. Download flyer. George Ritzer's seminal work of critical sociology, The McDonaldization of Society , continues to stand as one of the pillars of modern sociological thought. Building on the argument that the fast food restaurant has become the model for the rationalization process today, this book links theory to contemporary life in a globalized world.

This new edition continues to shift its focus to how we experience McDonaldization online, the new locus of production and consumption in the digital age. McDonaldization: The Basic Principles. The Advantages of McDonaldization. A Critique of McDonaldization: Irrationality. Digital McDonaldization. A Look Ahead. Translator's Introduction. Author's Preface. Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Rationality.

Some Characteristics of the Mythical and the … Expand. Rationality has been recognized as perhaps the major theme in Max Weber's oeuvre. The commentators who have addressed this theme have generally constricted its polymorphous character. This article … Expand. A systematic formulation is given of Weber's theory of the origins of large-scale capitalism, based upon the lectures given just before his death.

This last theory is predominantly institutional, … Expand. From the Publisher: The shift from an industrial to a post-industrial society has been documented extensively, as has its impact on the macro-level institutions of society -- government, the … Expand. Max Weber, critical theory, and the administered world. The Frankfurt sociologists were advocates of a neo-Marxism that … Expand.

An analysis of the manner in which believers' "relations to the supernatural" influence and even rationalize their action is central to Weber's sociology as a whole as well as his analysis of the … Expand.

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