The McDonaldization of Society

Chapter 1: Introduction to McDonaldization What is McDonaldization? McDonaldization: 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 What do we mean by the spatial, temporal, and vertical expansion of McDonaldization? Spatial expansion: franchises are growing rapidly; international success; other nations have developed their own variants on the McDonald’s chain McDonald’s long

economy for a country, the fact that poorer countries have a lower stock of educated people proves the point. The world was and is convinced that education was and is the key to economic prosperity. As Chang stated: “More educated people are more productive – as evidenced by the higher salaries they get”. So, it is a matter of mathematical logic that an economy with more educated people will be more productive (Chang, 2011). Capitalism leads to more focus on education, which later turned out to globalize

consideration to the general laws. In a general approach, sociology is defined briefly as the study of how human interact in their daily social life. The word sociology is developed from two main other words ‘socio’ and ‘logos’. The meaning of socio is society and the meaning of logos is science. That means sociology is the science used to study human social life. In addition to this sociology is not concerned with only the social interaction but also the daily social changes. Different approaches have

Ikeaization and Mcdonaldization are processes that are being used for the companies in order to achieve certain goals, but also these processes have been playing a big role in today’s world globalization and have been impacting in the culture as it is known nowadays. Some people believes that Globalization is leading to a Mcdonaldization perspective while other people maintains that is better described with an Ikeaization perspective. This essay will scrutinize some examples about Mcdonaldization and Ikeaization

Describe ways in which McDonaldization is evident in a number of familiar settings (not just in the workplace, but perhaps shopping malls and even the college or university campus). What elements of McDonaldization can you find? There are ways in which McDonaldization is evident in a number of specific settings, including shopping malls, grocery stores and university campuses. The idea of efficiency is specific to the interests of the industry or business, but is typically advertised as a benefit

the influence of McDonaldization in the medicinal services through the cases from the motion picture Patch Adams. The film Patch Adams depends on a genuine story of a person who fought most of his life to establish a human side of the health care. As he said, when he was studying to become a doctor,” our job is to increase health, enhance quality of life.” (, 2016, introduction section, para. 1). On the other hand, we face McDonaldization that is influencing each side of our society nowadays. It is

stores in over 118 countries. So iconic that the average US school child can recognize Ronald McDonald. Ritzer describes 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, 1993:1). This penetration by the ideal of “McDonaldization” can be seen in our school system. School systems are moving towards producing graduates, as apposed to imparting knowledge

logical system. Many organization is often rationalized to make the organization as helpful as possible. This paper will discuss Weber’s conception of bureaucracy and rationalization. Utilizing this concept, it will explain Ritzer’s concept of McDonaldization and how it reflects the structure of organizations and the work assigned individuals in organizations. Max

demonstrating his McDonaldization theory. The theory will be clarified by contemporary sociologists by looking at their strengths and weaknesses and how rationalization relates to a current social issue such as globalisation becoming such a problem in today’s society due to a wide population of fast food restaurants causing obesity to rise

The key concept of the sociological term for rationalization of society was first introduced by a sociologist/philosopher named Max Weber. Weber referring the key concept of rationalization was “an ongoing process to in which social interaction and institutions become increasingly governed by methodical procedures and calculable rules” (Edles…page.159). Further, describe as a form of vehicle for the course of societal development, value, traditions, and emotions were being displaced in favor of formal