McDonaldization | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-22

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:00:50 1 Aspects
00:02:45 2 De-McDonaldization
00:03:44 3 Examples
00:04:49 4 Response of McDonald's
00:05:12 5 Education



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SUMMARY
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McDonaldization is a McWord developed by sociologist George Ritzer in his 1993 book The McDonaldization of Society.  For Ritzer, "McDonaldization" is when a society adopts the characteristics of a fast-food restaurant. The process of McDonaldization can be summarized as the way in 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."McDonaldization is a comparatively recent idea about the worldwide homogenization of cultures due to globalization.McDonaldization is a reconceptualization of rationalization and scientific management. Where Max Weber used the model of the bureaucracy to represent the direction of this changing society, Ritzer sees the fast-food restaurant as a more representative contemporary paradigm.