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	George Ritzer
		George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland.
		George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland where he has...
		George Ritzer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, where he has been named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
	www.lycos.com /info/george-ritzer.html (630 words)

	George Ritzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Ritzer (born 1940) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
		George Ritzer: The McDonaldization of Society (3rd edition 2000; first published in 1993) (ISBN 0761986286).
		George Ritzer: The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions (1998) (ISBN 0761955402).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Ritzer (156 words)

	The Disenchanted Kingdom: George Ritzer on the Disappearance of Authentic American Culture
		Ritzer warns that the spread of such "rationalized systems" has had irrational consequences, not least of which is the "disenchantment of the world," a situation in which rationality takes over, leaving no room for the mysterious, unpredictable qualities that make us human.
		Ritzer: It’s the process by which the principles of the fast-food industry -- efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control through technology -- are being applied to more and more sectors of society in more and more parts of the world.
		Ritzer: German sociologist Max Weber called this the "disenchantment of the world." In a progressively rationalized culture, the magic, the mystery, the religious qualities of the world are always being challenged.
	www.derrickjensen.org /ritzer.html (6198 words)

	George Ritzer's Major Works (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to include a number of sections on new developments in the field, such as theories of consumption and the new means of consumption, multiculturalism, and criticisms and applications of postmodernism and post-post modernism.
		George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify.
		Author George Ritzer takes a look at how a revolutionary change has occurred in the places in which we consume goods and services, andhow it has a profound effect not only on the nature of consumption but also on social life.
	www.faculty.rsu.edu /~felwell/Theorists/Ritzer/RitzerBooks.htm (1173 words)

	McDonaldization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term was coined by sociologist George Ritzer, who wrote the book The McDonaldization of Society.
		McDonaldization is a reconceptualization of rationalization, or moving from traditional to rational modes of thought, and scientific management.
		Where Weber used the model of the bureaucracy to represent the direction of this changing society, Ritzer sees the fast-food restaurant as having become a more representative paradigm contemporarily (Ritzer, 2004:553).
	wikipedia.org /wiki/McDonaldisation (200 words)

	Illuminations: Kellner
		Ritzer's popularization of Max Weber's theory of rationalization and its application to a study of the processes of McDonaldization presents a concrete example of applied social analysis which clarifies important developments in the present moment, calling attention to their costs and benefits, their positive and negative sides.
		Ritzer extends Weber's analysis to a wealth of phenomena, demonstrating that the principles of McDonaldization are restructuring a vast array of fields, ranging from the food, media, education, and health care industries, encompassing fundamental life processes from birth to death (1996, 161ff).
		Ritzer himself defines his project: "As a theoretically based work in social criticism, this book is part of a historical tradition in the social sciences in which social theory is used to critique society and thereby to provide the base for its betterment" (1993: xiii).
	www.uta.edu /huma/illuminations/kell30.htm (7625 words)

	The Scorpion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ritzer cites Weber-we are living in "an iron cage of efficiency".
		The sad fact is that Ritzer is unable or unwilling (or both) to draw radical conclusions to his own analysis, one of which might have been that the United States as a political union should be destroyed.
		Ritzer's pessimism is no surprise in view of his lack of radicalism.
	thescorp.multics.org /18animal.html (1415 words)

	George Ritzer begins his discussion on The McDonaldization of Society, by defining McDonaldization as, “the process ...
		George Ritzer begins his discussion on The McDonaldization of Society, by defining McDonaldization as, “the process by which t
		George Ritzer begins his book of The McDonaldization of Society, by defining McDonaldization as, “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world” (Ritzer, 1).
		Ritzer describes the control that is exerted in a McDonaldized society as the efficiency that consumers receive as they enter the marketplace of goods and services, the known and assumed quality and quantity of goods and services received that we refer to as calculability and the predictability that consumers of a McDonaldized society demand.
	www.mercer.edu /sociology/DominicaPurter.htm (1818 words)

	R_0966_0879_010
		George Ritzer, a sociologist teaching at the University of Maryland, is the author of a series of studies which surveyed and synthesised the major tendencies and controversies of modern social theory and charted the essential characteristics of the ‘postmodern turn’ in common culture and the fashion in which it has been theorised.
		These studies, regularly updated in successive editions, have been and continue to be widely read for the comprehensiveness with which the vast expenses of social theory have been covered and for the clarity with which complex theoretical issues have been portrayed and scattered ideas condensed and ordered.
		Ritzer’s name, however, is mainly associated with the highly influential ‘McDonaldization of Society’ thesis, first articulated in 1983 and since then consistently developed and enriched in a growing number of books and articles.
	www.politicalreviewnet.com /polrev/reviews/JCCM/R_0966_0879_010_19432.asp (489 words)

	Bill Arnold: McDonaldization
		George Ritzer is a professor at the University of Maryland.
		According to his use of the word, nothing is a "social form that is generally centrally conceived/controlled and comparatively devoid of distinctive substantive content." McDonald's is the classic purveyor of nothing.
		Ritzer pointed out the problems involved with this worldwide production of "non-things." The products of the McDonaldization process are generic, they have a lack of local ties in space or in time, they are dehumanized and they are disenchanted.
	billarnold.typepad.com /poet_in_motion/2004/07/mcdonaldization.html (486 words)

	Conversation with George Ritzer and John Drane
		A lecture and discussion by The McDonaldization of Society author George Ritzer and theologian John Drane, author of The McDonaldization of the Church, drew approximately 200 to Fuller Seminary’s Travis Auditorium Wednesday evening, July 21.
		Ritzer’s latest book, The Globalization of Nothing, was the topic of an intriguing presentation by both authors and a discussion between the two.
		George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.
	www.brehmcenter.com /Events/RitzerDraneEvent.shtml (262 words)

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		This chapter in the Ritzer text is focused on explaining the origins of McDonaldization.
		Ritzer's first step in tracing the origins of McDonaldization is looking at the work of Max Weber.
		As an example of rationality at its worst George Ritzer cites the Holocaust.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~jemote/ritzer2.html (649 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The McDonaldization of Society (George Ritzer) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ritzer is not an anticapitalist, and I praise him for not soliciting legislative solutions.
		George Ritzer's well known book, "The McDonaldization of Society," refers to society's increasingly hurried pace towards more and more rationalization.
		Ritzer does say that this process will be hard to stop, and that it is likely to continue.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0761986286.html (562 words)

	SAGE Publications - Author - George Ritzer
		George Ritzer is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.
		He received the 2000 Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association and has chaired its sections on Theoretical Sociology and Organizations and Occupations.
		George Ritzer has a Web Site at: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/ritzer/
	www.sagepub.com /authorDetails.nav?contribId=500989 (108 words)

	The McDonaldization of Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sociologist George Ritzer (1993) sees the thousands of McDonalds restaurants that dot the U.S. landscape - and increasingly, the world - as having much greater significance than the convenience of fast hamburgers and milk shakes.
		And because the first two rows were farthest from the heating element, they were instructed (and still are) to flip the third row first, then the fourth, fifth, and sixth before flipping the first two.
		Ritzer stresses that "McDonaldization" does not refer just to the robotlike assembly of food.
	www.stedwards.edu /bss/farrall/mcdonize.htm (492 words)

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		Ritzer and Goodman: Chapter 1: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Early Years, pp.
		Ritzer and Goodman: Chapter 2: A Historical Sketch of Sociological Theory: The Later Years, pp.
		Ralf Dahrendorf and Randall Collins in Ritzer and Goodman: Chapter 3: Conflict Theory, pp.
	www.hanover.edu /academics/soc/syl330c.doc (1258 words)

	WARREN: SOCIOLOGY 200
		For example, the symbolic interactionist perspective, the classical work of George Simmel and recent developments from the ground of SimmelÕs writings, and also the various post-modernist schools will not be covered in this course.
		For anyone concerned about these arenas of thought, the Ritzer textbook may be taken as an excellent guide and a fine introduction.
		The Ritzer papers may be submitted at any time on or before classtime, Dec. 2nd.
	www.langara.bc.ca /sociology/WAREN200.HTM (384 words)

	McDonaldization.com - What Is It?
		The system of efficiently producing and distributing their food has some other consequences, namely millions of tons of trash each year (disposability) and a food cultivation system of questionable ethics.
		There are other dimensions of McDonaldization that Ritzer didn't include with the main four, but are worthy enough for prime attention.
		Ritzer himself hints that this is the fifth dimension of McDonaldization.
	www.mcdonaldization.com /whatisit.shtml (674 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Included here are Ritzer's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory.
		According to Ritzer, sociology is a multparadigm science.
		It shows the various ways in which Ritzer has developed rationalization theory to shed light on professional integration, the shape of consumer culture, hyperrationality and the state of sociology today.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0761967729 (274 words)

	Sosiologia
		One of the latest sociologists who represents this macro-level thinking is George Ritzer who seems to lean on the famous Habermas' thesis about the "system's" way of colonizing the "life world" without referring to Habermas himself.
		Ritzer is famous for his so called McDonaldisation thesis.
		The article concludes by estimating what Ritzer's theory includes that is worth a closer analysis but has so far been bypassed by sociology of consumption.
	www.uta.fi /laitokset/sosio/sosiologialehti/abstracts2003.htm (3166 words)

	The McDonaldization of Society
		George Ritzer has taken central elements of the work of Max Weber, expanded and updated them, and produced a critical analysis of the impact of social structural change on human interaction and identity.
		The central theme in Weber's analysis of modern society was the process of Rationalization; a far reaching process whereby traditional modes of thinking were being replaced by an ends/means analysis concerned with efficiency and formalized social control.
		Ritzer suggests that in the later part of the Twentieth Century the socially structured form of the fast-food restaurant has become the organizational force representing and extending the process of rationalization further into the realm of everyday interaction and individual identity.
	www.umsl.edu /~rkeel/010/mcdonsoc.html (1588 words)

	George Ritzer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Ritzer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		George Ritzer (born 1940) is Professor of (The study and classification of human societies) Sociology at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Maryland, College Park) University of Maryland, College Park.
		Here, Ritzer applies his thesis to various areas such as (The business of providing services to tourists) tourism ("post-tourism", " (Click link for more info and facts about McDisneyization) McDisneyization") or (Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching) university ("McUniversity").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_ritzer.htm (207 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The McDonaldization of Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Ritzer in this book gives us a quick survey of the history of McDonald's restaurants.
		What's more Ritzer forgets that it has always been a fundamental objective of humanity to reduce wasted time, to reduce heavy, difficult and long tasks to mechanized lighter, faster and easier tasks.
		Ritzer's book offers solutions to help stem that dehumanizing tide, and those who want a better, more human America should read this book.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0761988122 (712 words)

	Challenges
		In class we talked about "McDonaldization," described in reading #17 by George Ritzer, and how McDonaldization is Ritzer's word for the larger process of "rationalization." Examples of McDonaldization are all around us in our world as the process of rationalization is increasingly applied to various arenas of life.
		Imagine that you, a young sociologist, have received an email from Ritzer stating that he intends to update his book on McDonaldization and needs some new examples of the spread of the process.
		Again, you want Ritzer to use your example in the new addition of his book, so be thorough in your analysis and demonstrate that your example illustrates the process well.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /soc101/challenges.htm (936 words)

	McDonaldization
		George Ritzer's Publications has a list of books that are written by George
		This is another website that made references to George Ritzer's work.
		George Ritzer's view of McDonaldiztion, but it also mentions the negative and positive (though
	www.langara.bc.ca /sociology/McDonaldization.html (351 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The McDonaldization of Society: New Century Edition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ritzer argues how many businesses have emulated the McDonalds model of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control.
		Ritzer is the founder of the idea of McDonaldization and in this book he puts forward his arguments in an interesting and easy to understand manner.
		To be fair, George Ritzer presents his material in a balance and reasonable manner, but one does sense that old Ronald MacDonald is being made a scapegoat for all the ills of America's convenience society.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0761986286 (692 words)

	[WikiEN-l] Re: What's the deal with categories?
		As I tried to point out >on the talk page, well of course he has "written" something, but nothing >even remotely comparable to what the other categorized "writers" have >written, namely fiction.
		But for this epistulary fugue I might never have heard of Ritzer, so I am ill-equipped to participate in his categorization.
		The year-long discussion that preceded was focused on whether there should be categories at all, and how such an idea might be technically implemented.
	mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikien-l/2004-June/013082.html (287 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Globalization of Nothing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ritzer's argument is that products, places, and services that are locally constructed, locally controlled, and full of distinct and special qualities are vanishing.
		The Globalization Of Nothing is an articulate economic thesis by Professor George Ritzer (University of Maryland) that articulately postulates the short and long-term effects of globalization.
		The Globalization Of Nothing is a philosophical and clarion warning regarding the creeping and homogenizing impersonality of severe economic forces.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0761988076?v=glance (912 words)

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