02-45282-kivisto.qxd 6/30/2007 10:58 AM Page 41 CHAPTER 2 The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society George Ritzer George Ritzer is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His major areas of interest are sociological theory‚ globalization‚ and the sociology of consumption. He has served as chair of the American Sociological Association’s sections on theory (1989–1990) and organizations and occupations (1980–1981). He has
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record keeping‚ like‚ drivers have daily worksheets that specify performance goals and work output. When UPS want to hiring or promote employees‚ technical qualification is the main criterion. UPS use those impersonal management style to avoid irrationality in order to be more efficient and adaptable to change‚ because continuity is related to formal structure
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evidence boiled down to you - did — I - didn’t. Tom Robinson’s trial was a fate already predetermined‚ but simply because we never had a chance before we started was no reason for us not to try to win — for that is what real courage is. For the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class is not something that can be taken so leniently — as to extend so far at the expense of human life. For me‚ Tom’s trial meant more than the fate of a single man. The case was about the fairness of the American
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(Marlowe 9-13). From this‚ the shepherd strives to show justification so the love can be reciprocated‚ however‚ the nymph has a much different philosophy. In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”‚ Raleigh expresses how passion deceives the mind into irrationality by countering the shepherd’s persuasive remarks. The nymph’s philosophy on love differs immensely from the shepherd’s emphasis on superficial things; sure coral clasps and amber studs are great gifts‚ but “All these in me no means can move / To
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of value (however asymmetrical)‚ but is subsumed by direct relations of force. As such‚ a slave is an articulation of a despotic irrationality‚ whereas the worker is an articulation of a symbolic rationality” (Wilderson 13). It is urgent that socialist and other radical left politics notice this hole in their discourse for‚ as Wilderson notes‚ this despotic irrationality‚ this relation of enslavement‚ still exists today. The institution of slavery may have been abolished‚ but white supremacy’s libidinal
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and value. Humanity has always been infatuated with the archetype of love itself. To fully comprehend what attraction is composed of and how it begins‚ one can consult science and psychology‚ but the only complete justification of love is the irrationality of human emotion and subconscious. The influence of biology and philosophy only extends so far before the nonsensical desires of the human heart dictate attraction. The essence of love generally begins with physical attraction‚ the standards for
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The fourth concept is control. We become more dependent on the very things that McDonaldization creates because we are in less control while computers are in more control. The companies control the wages they pay to each of their employees. There is a huge wage gap among males and females. Currently‚ the pay for women is approximately 79% less than what men are paid for performing the same job or holding the same position. The gap is even worse for women of color. Since the 1970’s‚ the vast
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he can never fully live in the past. However‚ towards the end of the book “Gatsby believed in the green light‚ the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us…”; at this point in time‚ Gatsby finally begins to recognize the significant irrationality of dwelling on the past. Throughout the book‚ Nick Carraway‚ has always been the character of stability. Unlike Gatsby‚ Daisy and Tom‚ Nick does not regularly dwell on the past. He is a man of present mind; he believes in making the
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Minstrelsy in America‚ for most of its insignificant irrationality and noticeable quality‚ was an exploitative kind of melodic theater that distorted certified dull conditions and braced dangerous speculations in the midst of the nineteenth and twentieth several years. The way that blackface minstrelsy began in the before the war time period and drove forward all through Reconstruction‚ Jim Crow and the Great Migration‚ with performers assembling and including social points of view from each period
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MANILA‚ Philippines—Alarmed by the influx of heinous crimes‚ Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III has sought the revival of Republic Act 7659 or the Death Penalty Law in the country through lethal injection. In filing Senate Bill 2080 known as “An Act imposing death penalty in the Philippines‚” Sotto sought to repeal Republic Act No. 9346 otherwise known as “An act prohibiting the imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines…” “The influx of heinous crimes committed poses an alarming situation
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