McDonaldization

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.

• Part I. McDonaldization: Basics, Studies, Applications, and Extensions1. An Introduction to McDonaldization2. Precursors: Bureaucracy and Max Weber’s Theory of Rationality, Irrationality, and the Iron Cage - George Ritzer3. Islands of the Living Dead: The Social Geography of McDonaldization - George Ritzer4. On Mass Distrbution: A Case Study of Chain Stores in the Restaurant Industry - Joel I. Nelson5. A Sociology of Rib Joints - P. D. Holley and D. E. Wright, Jr.6. McDonald’s as a Disneyized Institution - Alan Bryman7. Urgent Dreams: Climbing, Rationalization, and Ambivalence - Ian Heywood8. A Conversation With Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation9. McDonaldization: The Major Criticisms - Bryan S. TurnerPart II. The McDonaldization of Social Structures and Institutions10. McDonaldization of America’s Police, Courts, and Corrections - Matthew B. Robinson11. McDonaldization of the Sex Industries?: The Business of Sex - Kathryn Hausbeck and Barbara G. Brents12. McDonaldizing Men′s Bodies? Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances - Lee F. Monaghan13. McDonaldization and the Family - Sara Raley14. McSchools for McWorld? Mediating global pressures with a McDonaldizing education policy response - Gary Wilkinson15. The De-McDonaldization of the Internet - Nathan Jurgenson16. Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating ‘McJobs’ or Developing Skills? - Jos Gamble17. Supersizing Farms: The McDonaldization of Agriculture - Andrew J. Knight18. From burgers to biodiversity? The McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK - Carol Morris and Matt Reed19. From Creeds to Burgers: Religious Control, Spiritual Search, and the Future of the World - John Drane20. McCitizens: Risk, Coolness, and Irony in Contemporary Politics - Bryan S. Turner21. Cathedrals of Consumption: Rationalization, Enchantment, and Disenchantment - George Ritzer22. The McDonaldization Thesis and Cruise Tourism - Adam Weaver23. A Case of McDonald′s Restaurant: The Built Environment and the Perpetuation of the Phenomenon of Globalisation - Kristine P. Jerome24. Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization - George RitzerPart III. Cross-Cultural Analysis, Social Movements, and Social Change25. Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin R. Barber26. September 11, 2001: Mass Murder and Its Roots in the Symbolism of American Consumer Culture - George Ritzer27. The McLibel Trial Story - McSpotlight28. José Bové vs. McDonald′s: The Making of a National Hero in the French Anti-Globalization Movement - Wayne Northcutt29. The Emergence of Slow Food: Social entrepreneurship, local foods, and the Piedmont gastronomy cluster - Hielke S. van der MeulenPart IV. The Debate Over the Relationship Between McDonaldization and Globalization30. Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms - Jan Nederveen Pieterse31. McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption - Malcolm Waters32. Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia - James L. Watson33. The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity - Bryan S. Turner34. Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald’s and Consumerism in Moscow - Melissa L. Caldwell35. Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local—McDonald’s in Israel - Uri Ram36. Globalization and McDonaldization: Does It All Amount to ... Nothing? - George Ritzer37. Globaloney - Michael VesethPart V. Conclusion38. eBayization - Elif Izberk-Bilgin & Aaron Ahuvia