McDonaldization

Part I. McDonaldization: Basics, Studies, Applications, and Extensions 1. An Introduction to McDonaldization 2. Precursors: Bureaucracy and Max Weber's Theory of Rationality, Irrationality, and the Iron Cage - George Ritzer 3. Islands of the Living Dead: The Social Geography of McDonaldization - George Ritzer 4. On Mass Distrbution: A Case Study of Chain Stores in the Restaurant Industry - Joel I. Nelson 5. A Sociology of Rib Joints - P. D. Holley and D. E. Wright, Jr. 6. McDonald's as a Disneyized Institution - Alan Bryman 7. Urgent Dreams: Climbing, Rationalization, and Ambivalence - Ian Heywood 8. A Conversation With Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation 9. McDonaldization: The Major Criticisms - Bryan S. Turner Part II. The McDonaldization of Social Structures and Institutions 10. McDonaldization of America's Police, Courts, and Corrections - Matthew B. Robinson 11. McDonaldization of the Sex Industries?: The Business of Sex - Kathryn Hausbeck and Barbara G. Brents 12. McDonaldizing Men's Bodies? Slimming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances - Lee F. Monaghan 13. McDonaldization and the Family - Sara Raley 14. McSchools for McWorld? Mediating global pressures with a McDonaldizing education policy response - Gary Wilkinson 15. The De-McDonaldization of the Internet - Nathan Jurgenson 16. Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating 'McJobs' or Developing Skills? - Jos Gamble 17. Supersizing Farms: The McDonaldization of Agriculture - Andrew J. Knight 18. From burgers to biodiversity? The McDonaldization of on-farm nature conservation in the UK - Carol Morris and Matt Reed 19. From Creeds to Burgers: Religious Control, Spiritual Search, and the Future of the World - John Drane 20. McCitizens: Risk, Coolness, and Irony in Contemporary Politics - Bryan S. Turner 21. Cathedrals of Consumption: Rationalization, Enchantment, and Disenchantment - George Ritzer 22. The McDonaldization Thesis and Cruise Tourism - Adam Weaver 23. A Case of McDonald's Restaurant: The Built Environment and the Perpetuation of the Phenomenon of Globalisation - Kristine P. Jerome 24. Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization - George Ritzer Part III. Cross-Cultural Analysis, Social Movements, and Social Change 25. Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin R. Barber 26. September 11, 2001: Mass Murder and Its Roots in the Symbolism of American Consumer Culture - George Ritzer 27. The McLibel Trial Story - McSpotlight 28. Jose Bove vs. McDonald's: The Making of a National Hero in the French Anti-Globalization Movement - Wayne Northcutt 29. The Emergence of Slow Food: Social entrepreneurship, local foods, and the Piedmont gastronomy cluster - Hielke S. van der Meulen Part IV. The Debate Over the Relationship Between McDonaldization and Globalization 30. Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms - Jan Nederveen Pieterse 31. McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption - Malcolm Waters 32. Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia - James L. Watson 33. The McDonald's Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity - Bryan S. Turner 34. Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow - Melissa L. Caldwell 35. Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local-McDonald's in Israel - Uri Ram 36. Globalization and McDonaldization: Does It All Amount to ... Nothing? - George Ritzer 37. Globaloney - Michael Veseth Part V. Conclusion 38. eBayization - Elif Izberk-Bilgin & Aaron Ahuvia