Chapter 1: Introduction to McDonaldization What is McDonaldization? McDonaldization: The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world What do we mean by the spatial‚ temporal‚ and vertical expansion of McDonaldization? Spatial expansion: franchises are growing rapidly; international success; other nations have developed their own variants on the McDonald’s chain McDonald’s long
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Politics and Society Politics is the activity through which people make‚ preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. As such‚ it is an essentially social activity‚ inextricably linked‚ on the one hand‚ to the existence of diversity and conflict‚ and on the other to a willingness to co-operate and act collectively. Politics is better seen as a search for conflict resolution than as its achievement‚ as not all conflicts are‚ or can be‚ resolved. The concepts of: Politics‚ government
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based on merit. One of the characteristics of a bureaucratic school/organization is specialization. Specialization is concentrating on a specific task for example; bursar as one of the school officers regulates finances of the school. According to Weber as cited in Hoy and Miskel (1991) “division of labor and specialization means that the regular activities required for the purposes of the bureaucratically governed structure are distributed in a fixed way as official duties” (p: 104). This is to say
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suggested by Simmons and Dvorin. In order to achieve the highest efficency‚ we should maximized the outputs and minimized the inputs. Organizational Structure As efficiency is the main value of managerial approach‚ organizations are suggeted to follow Max Weber’s “ideal-type bureaucracy” which stresses the funtional specialization for “efficiency”. Hierarchy adopt the effective coordination. Programs and funtions are clearly divided to organizational units with minimized overlaping. Postions are
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Department of Sociology Sociology 201 Second Examination Prep Questions 1. True or False? The theory of primordialism in your text is the same as the biological theory of racial crime by van den Berghe that we discussed in class. A. True. B. False. 2. The petite bourgeoisie to Marx is the _____ to Wright. A. Bourgeoisie. B. Proletariat. C. Managerial class. D. Small business owners. E. Lumpenproletariat. 3. According to Matthews‚ the _____ is the most likely to be happy
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SOCIAL CONFLICT THEORY Introduction Social conflict theory is a Marxist-based social theory which argues that individuals and groups (social classes) within society have differing amounts of material and non-material resources (the wealthy vs. the poor) and that the more powerful groups use their power in order to exploit groups with less power. The two methods by which this exploitation is done are through brute force usually done by police and the army and economics. Earlier social conflict
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found in large corporations of the world‚ down to even simpler businesses. A bureaucracy is a goal-oriented organization founded to finish tasks with an effective and resourceful system according to The Theory of Social and Economic Organization (Weber‚ 1947.) Such organizations contain hierarchical levels of authority‚ divisions of labor‚ written rules‚ written communications and records‚ and a replace-ability that enables society to function (Larkin‚ 2015). The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate
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Question 3 1 out of 1 points According to Durkheim‚ _____ are measurable aspects of social life‚ external to the individual. Selected Answer: social facts Correct Answer: social facts Question 4 1 out of 1 points According to Weber‚
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McDonaldization of Society Paul Slaght Grantham University McDonaldization of Society Max Weber’s “Theory of Ideal Bureaucracies” identified six key characteristics that define an ideal type of bureaucracy. In his model the following show what an ideal bureaucracy should look like: 1. High degree of division of labor and specialization - Every manager and worker must perform specific tasks. 2. Hierarchy of Authority - A chain of command. Someone answers to someone above them. 3
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Administration Discretion Bobbi Soriano Grantham University Public administration is in a constant state of flux and what worked for one era may not necessarily be the best option of doing things in a completely different era. Max Weber’s rules of public administration state that public administrators should only be allowed to follow a restricted set of rules. The people who hold offices in the public administration are also constantly changing which would also make a certain
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