The McDonaldization of: If you have ever had a meal in a restaurant (fast-food/formal dining)‚ used an ATM in a bank‚ spent your vacation at an amusement park or simply browsed through a mall‚ you have been exposed to McDonaldization. McDonaldization is "the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of America society as well as the rest of the world" (Ritzer‚ 1996‚ 1). Nearly ever aspect of today’s society has been affected
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Predictability and control are major discussion points in Ritzer’s The McDonaldization of Society. These are points that have both pros and cons in regards to “irrationality of rationality” as evidenced in both the health care system and the health care debate in the United States. The “irrationality of rationality” can be described as the downside to something that is seemingly perfect‚ or seemingly rational. We must look at McDonaldization as both enabling and constraining (Giddens). The healthcare issue
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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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and crowded. Now that I’m older I am used to a fast paced life. I always drive to school‚ I am always on a busy campus‚ and I always am being pulled in so many directions it makes my head spin! I can see the highs and lows in the whole MDoS (McDonaldization of Society).It truly is something that a lot of us have grown accustomed to. Whether it be a fast food restaurant or a store‚ these small shops has grown into large conglomerates to supply us with two things. Convenience and low prices. But unfortunately
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In the two articles Social Change Among the Amish‚ and The McDonaldization of Society we can plainly comprehend the distinction between a Gemeinschaft and a Gesellschaft. The term Gemeinschaft what’s more‚ Gesellschaft is utilized by Ferdinand Tonnies to dissect the two noteworthy terms in the public arena. A Gemeinschaft is also called a "personal group." It is utilized to portray the conventional sort of society in which everybody knows every other person. While a Gesellschaft is what
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the key elements of McDonaldization. A brief history of rationalization then leads into observations on technological advances and their role in globalisation. A discussion of globalisation follows and looks at how it has shaped the relationship between the local and global aspects of our society. With these concepts established McDonaldization is reintroduced to explore how it relates in light of the localized and globalized world. Ritzer has defined McDonaldization as the process by which
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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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there are proofs out there that we are moving away from mcdonaldization‚ that not everything is controlled or predetermined by society or gigantic fast food chains. He starts the explanation of the Demacdonalization by tying it to Globalization and the several examples given throughout the book. On the first couple paragraphs Ritzer talks about the elements of the definition of Mcdonaldization: Transplanetary‚ that is the power of Mcdonaldization to spread and being known all around the world ‚ Set
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America is unlike the textbook definitions since there are various standards of living within each state that dictate the level. As a result including‚ an ever-growing population of consumer workers‚ deskilled jobs‚ and irrationality caused from McDonaldization‚ countless individuals‚ specifically: the uneducated‚ Blacks‚ Latinos‚ and young adults‚ fall into a class of “working poor”. A living wage is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. The basic needs in this case are:
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understand a current social issue This essay looks at the argument taken from a classical sociologist called Weber‚ throughout this essay it explains rationalization and how it has become modernized using Ritzer to explain this by demonstrating his McDonaldization theory. The theory will be clarified by contemporary sociologists by looking at their strengths and weaknesses and how rationalization relates to a current social issue such as globalisation becoming such a problem in today’s society due to a
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