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McDonaldization revisited : critical essays on consumer culture
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McDonaldization revisited : critical essays on consumer culture

Author: Mark Alfino; John S Caputo; Robin Wynyard
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This study examines the thesis of George Ritzer's book, "The McDonaldization of Society". It analyzes the premise of "McDonaldization" to provide theoretical discussions of the relationship between  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mark Alfino; John S Caputo; Robin Wynyard
ISBN: 0275958191 9780275958190 0275961044 9780275961046
OCLC Number: 36969792
Description: xxvi, 201 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword : McDonaldization and its discontents : Ritzer and his critics / Douglas Kellner --
Nostalgia and mass culture : McDonaldization and cultural elitism / Martin Parker --
It may be a polar night of icy darkness, but feminists are building a fire / Jane A. Rinehart --
The rhetoric of McDonaldization : a social semiotic perspective / John S. Caputo --
McDonaldization and the global sports store : constructing consumer meanings in a rationalized society / Steven Miles --
A sociology of rib joints / Philip D. Holley and David E. Wright, Jr. --
Old wine in new bottles : critical limitations of the McDonaldization thesis : the case of hospitality services / Roy C. Wood --
McDonaldization and consumer choice in the future : an illusion or the next marketing revolution? / Stephen Taylor, Sheena Smith, and Phil Lyon --
The McCommidification of society : rationalization and critical theory / Thomas M. Jeannot --
Missing the cultural basis of irrationality in the McDonaldization of society / Ngure wa Mwachofi --
The bunless burger / Robin Wynyard --
Postmodern hamburgers : taking a postmodern attitude toward McDonald's / Mark Alfino.
Responsibility: edited by Mark Alfino, John S. Caputo, and Robin Wynyard ; foreword by Douglas Kellner.

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.,."this volume, despite some occasional heady theory, can engage the reader at any level. Witty, wry, urbane by turns, it is a wonderful example of scholarship in action."-Choice

 
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