McDonaldization: The Reader 2nd Edition

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The Second Edition of McDonaldization: The Reader includes a wide array of sources, from journal articles, to essays from edited books, to newspaper, and magazine articles. George Ritzer, best-selling author of McDonaldization of Society, has updated this popular anthology to build upon and go beyond the thesis of McDonaldization. Classic articles from the First Edition remain in this volume and are supplemented by a significant number of new pieces which bring the discussion about McDonaldization up to date.

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"This is a well-organized reader. This is an excellent reader for teachers who teach undergraduate courses on globalization, work, and social institution. It is also a must-read for lower and upper division undergraduate students who are concerned with the nature of modern and postmodern worlds." -- Shu-Ju Ada Cheng Published On: 2007-06-01

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George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1412926009
Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications, Inc; 2nd edition (January 31, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781412926003
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1412926003
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches

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George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence award by the American Sociological Association, and in 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by LaTrobe University, Melborune, Australia. He has served as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Sections on Theoretical Sociology and organizations and Occupations. He held the UNESCO Chair in Social Theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Fulbright-Hay Chair at York University in Canada, and a Fulbright-Hays award to the Netherlands. He has been Scholar-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Dr. Ritzer's main theoretical interests lie in metatheory as well as applied social theory. In metatheory, his contributions include Metatheorizing in Sociology(Lexington Books, 1991), Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science (Allyn and Bacon, 1975, 1980), and Toward an Integrated Sociological Paradigm (Allyn and Bacon). Professor Ritzer is perhaps best known for the McDonaldization of Society (4/e, 2004); translated into more than a dozen languages) and several related books (also with a number of translations, including Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995), Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (2/e, 2005),The Globalization of Nothing (2/e, 2007), and (with Craig Lair) Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond. He edited the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), and is the founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. He just completed editing the eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007). In 2006, McGraw-Hill published the second edition of Professor Ritzer's Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classic Roots: The Basics. In 2007, McGraw-Hill will publish the seventh edition of Modern Sociological Theory, and the fifth edition of Classical Sociological Theory. The latter texts, as well as this one, have been translated into a number of languages.
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I read this as an introduction to commercialism and standardized business practices. It raised my awareness, opened my eyes and made me want to support independent retailers, organizations and lifestyles. Written in a non-flowery and direct manner, it is accessible and in parts, shocking. Would like to read again.

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Redundant to McDonaldization in Society book.

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This book should be a complement to McDonaldization in Society, but it was redundant to it. The information in this book repeated the information in the other book, but from the perspective of other authors. Sometimes the chapters were very wordy and used a lot of $5 words to make a point, which was never necessary.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2014

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Nicht umsonst ein Bestseller

Reviewed in Germany on November 25, 2014

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Eine schöne Zusammenstellung von Aufsätzen zur Zeitdiagnose "McDonaldisierung", die wir nicht kausal einem Verursacher oder einer Verursacherin zuschreiben können, sondern die sich quasi mit unser aller Zutun ausbreitet. Standardisierung, Quantifizierung usw. sind nicht (nur) Trends, die uns aufgezwungen werden, weil wir auch nach ihnen verlangen ... doch die Geister, die wir riefen, werden wir so einfach nicht los. Angenehm zu lesen und daher empfehlenswert zum Beispiel für Studierende Soziologie, die ihren Zeitdiagnostischen Blick entwickeln möchten.

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