In this provocative book, George Ritzer explores how Weber's classic thoughts on rationalization take on new vitality and meaning when applied to the process of McDonaldization.

As in previous editions, the book has been updated and it offers new discussions of, among others, In-N-Out-Burger and Pret A Manger as possible antitheses of McDonaldization.

The biggest change, however, is that the book has been streamlined to offer an even clearer articulation of the McDonaldization thesis.

McDonaldization is a term used by sociologist George Ritzer in his book The McDonaldization of Society ( 1993 ).

Ritzer introduces this during Chapter Two ( The Past, Present, and Future of McDonaldization: From the Iron Cage to the Fast-Food Factory and Beyond ) of his book " The McDonaldization of Society " in the sub-section Irrationality and the " Iron Cage.

Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart question the extent to which McDonaldization has really been occurring in their book Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World, finding national cultures resilient in the face of globalization.

The McDonaldization of Society is a 1993 book by sociologist George Ritzer.

The book introduced the term McDonaldization into learned discourse to describe mind-numbing sameness.

Hence he commissioned a book entitled The Quintessence of Histories to be worked upon by calligraphers, but forbade its illustration by the by-now largely dissolved Society of Miniaturists.

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

Its practical implementation in the form of local cooperatives has recently been documented by Race Mathews in his 1999 book Jobs of Our Own: Building a Stakeholder Society.

Bourland and Johnston edited a third book E-Prime III: a third anthology: 1997, Concord, California: International Society for General Semantics.

Informal discussions with colleagues and friends stimulated a greater interest, which was reinforced by Friedrich Hayek's powerful book The Road to Serfdom, by my attendance at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and by discussions with Hayek after he joined the university faculty in 1950.

Tony Bondhus brings up the point in his book, Society of Conceivia, that if Gaia is alive, then societies are living things as well.

In his 1899 book, The Society of Tomorrow, he proposed a federated system of collective security, and reiterated his support for private competing defense agencies.

In his 1976 book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states in the entry for " Industry ": " The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.

By then, the work consisted of four books of eighty chapters, and each book was named after statements from the creed: Book 1 on God the Creator, Book 2 on the Redeemer in Christ, Book 3 on receiving the Grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and Book 4 on the Society of Christ or the Church.

* Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, non-fiction book

Their critical theoretical work peaked on the highly influential book The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.

In 1986, Minsky published The Society of Mind, a comprehensive book on the theory which, unlike most of his previously published work, was written for a general audience.

In his book Science, Faith and Society ( 1946 ), Polanyi set out his opposition to a positivist account of science, noting that it fails to recognise the role which personal commitments play in the practice of science.

Many pagans in North America encounter the movement through their involvement in other hobbies ; particularly popular with U. S. Pagans are " golden age "- type pastimes such as the Society for Creative Anachronism ( SCA ), Star Trek fandom, Doctor Who fandom and comic book fandom.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

Her seminal book The Psycho-Analysis of Children, based on lectures given to the British Psychoanalytic Society in the 1920s, was published in 1932.

In his 1882 book, The Relations of the Church to Society — Theological Essays, a Jesuit theologian, Father Edmund J. O ' Reilly, wrote: "... not that an interregnum covering the whole period would have been impossible or inconsistent with the promises of Christ, for this is by no means manifest.

Among these groups are comic book fandom, media fandom, the Society for Creative Anachronism, gaming, and furry fandom, sometimes referred to collectively as " fringe fandoms " with the implication that the original fandom centered on science fiction texts ( magazines and later books and fanzines ) is the " true " or " core " fandom.

He was also the ichthyological book review editor of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

In his book The Rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells suggests that there is an ongoing shift from already-decentralised, stand-alone microcomputers and mainframes towards entirely pervasive computing.

Playfair later recalled that " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ", and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase " we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

His most important work in potential theory is summarised in his 1911 book Researches in Potential Theory ( Potentialtheoretische Untersuchungen ), which received the Jablonowski Society award in Leipzig ( 1500 marks ), and the Richard Lieben award from the University of Vienna ( 2000 crowns ) for the most outstanding work in the field of pure and applied mathematics written by any kind of ' Austrian ' mathematician in the previous three years.

A 1947 propaganda comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover

The culmination of Fromm's social and political philosophy was his book The Sane Society, published in 1955, which argued in favor of a humanistic and democratic socialism.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

The opening paragraph of the chapter titled The Theory Of Representative Perception, in the book Philosophies Of Science by Albert G. Ramsperger says, `` passed on to the brain, and there, by some unexplained process, it causes the mind to have a perception ''.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.

A `` book count '' was the sellin' of cattle by the books, commonly resorted to in the early days, sometimes much to the profit of the seller.

In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.

It is connected by teletype with the State Library in Albany, which will supply any book to a system that the system itself cannot provide.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.