SOCIOLOGY – LIB402 RESEARCH PAPER: FAST FOOD AND ITS IMPACT ON ROLES AND SOCIALIZATION BY: NAME AZIFF AZUDDIN NUR HANIZ MOHD NOR SUBMITTED TO: MR NORSHAM FIRDAUS 9 MARCH 2010 FAST FOOD AND ITS IMPACT ON ROLES AND SOCIALIZATION “More people recognize the Golden Arches than they do the Christian Cross”. Those were the words written down by journalist Eric Schlosser in his book Fast Food Nation. And no words written have ever been truer. Fast food franchises are so deeply rooted in
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factors of influencing the fast food restaurant Chinese fast food is not something new. But fast food is not an original Chinese conception. Traditionally Chinese people value a certain kind of elegant and slow table manners‚ which symbolize health and politeness. The development of Chinese fast food can be traced to 1980s-1990s‚ when Western fast-food giants entered the Chinese market in order to attract more Chinese consumers. As a result of this‚ Chinese-style fast food emerged and it soon gathered
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Strategic Alternatives SWOT Analysis 5. Recommendations Short Term Medium Term Long Term 6. References 1. Introduction The following is a report on the fast food market and more specifically McDonalds. This report aims to establish the strength of the fast food market and the strength of McDonalds within this market. It will help to establish what objectives McDonalds can strive towards in the future. The report consists of: a look at the organisation itself;
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According to Fast Food Nation’s author‚ Eric Schlosser‚ Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is a “beautiful and important book about one of the world’ s most important subjects.” This book‚ written by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio‚ takes on the topic of food. Yet‚ the authors don’t simply talk about different foods around the world‚ they go in depth into the cultural‚ social‚ and economical aspects of eating. They display‚ through the use of pictures‚ a week’s worth of food for numerous different
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The country I would choose to launch the Indian Fast Food would be Bulgaria. In order to evaluate the marketing strategy we have to make research and to discover the differences between the Bulgarian and the UK market 1. Fast food in Bulgaria There is a little amount of information regarding the fast food market free on internet. A survey‚ done by Synovate (Synovate‚ 2009)‚ shows that the Bulgarians love fast food more than that Americans and the Brits. According to the survey more than 68%
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Knowing what is in your fast food might make you think twice the next time you devour it. As the rise of the fast food nation in America has increased to an all-time high‚ so has the weight and waists of Americans all around the country. Not only has the United States grown to love the acquired taste of greasy golden fries and juicy burgers‚ it has also grown ignorant to the way their food is prepared. In the novel‚ “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”(2002)‚ by Eric Schlosser
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Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between work and employment relations in the fast food industry in Singapore with work and employment relations in the fast food industries in Germany and the United States. How would you explain those similarities and differences between Singapore and the other two countries? Introduction The fast food industry‚ and McDonald’s in particular‚ have come to be regarded as emblematic of a new global culture (Leidner‚ 2002‚ pg 8). McDonald’s operates
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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE POPULARITY OF FAST FOOD Nowadays‚ most people -especially kids and young people- prefer to eat fast food‚ such as hamburgers‚ pizza‚ fried food‚ etc. Why it has become so popular? It tastes better than homemade food? We do not believe it is only the taste the reason of the popularity of fast food. There are several reasons why fast food had become popular over the years. It is popular because it is cheap‚ quick and convenient to those who have
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Leticia Jackson The Causes and Effects of Fast Food Consumption Often times many wonder what drives an individual to eat fast food. Thinking about the numerous amount of calories sin each fast food meal one would choose not to eat such a thing. There have been studies that have shown that the amount of fast food consumption has grown tremendously in the last couple of years. There are many causes of people eating such foods; such as‚ lack of knowledge on what people are consuming‚ lacks of
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The Fast Food Industry: Destroying America’s people‚ one french fry at a time The eating habits of America can be summed up in three words. “Fat‚” “Fast‚” and “Food.” Fast-food companies are the leading problem in the rapid growth of our nation’s obesity problem. Costs of fast-food consumption were nearly $164.8 billion dollars in 2010‚ and the constant and excessive eating that has taken place at fast-food establishments over the last few decades has‚ and will continue to‚ result in obesity. Public
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