Resisting McDonaldization - Softcover

 
9780761955184: Resisting McDonaldization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761955186 ISBN 13: 9780761955184
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a critical appraisal of the thesis.

The contributors discuss the roots of the thesis, the rationalization of late modern life, the effects of increasing cultural commodification, the continuing prominence of American cultural and economic imperialism and the impact of globalization on social and cultural life. The strengths and weaknesses of the McDonaldization thesis are clearly evaluated and the irrational consequences of rationalization are pinpointed and critically

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth; author of Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis; Power and the State; Foucault, Marxism and Critique; Michel Foucault; Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies; Postmodernity; Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments I and Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments II.

CONTRIBUTORS

Professor Alan Bryman University of Loughborough

Dr Peter Beilharz La Trobe University

Professor Keith Tester

Professor David Jary University of Staffordshire

Dr Joanne Finklestein University of Melbourne

Dr Richard Munch Otto-Freidrich University

Professor John O′Neill York University

Professor Doug Kellner University of Texas

Professor Norman Denzin University of Illinois

Professor Bryan S Turner Deakin University

Professor Gianfranco Poggi Universitario Europeo, Italy

Professor Gary Alan Fine University of Georgia

Professor Michael Weinstein Purdue University

Professor Deena Weinstein De Paul University

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761955186
ISBN 13 
9780761955184
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
261
Herausgeber
Smart Barry
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