Mariya Oliferovskaya
Critical Response to “Working at McDonald’s”
The article, “Working at McDonald’s” by Amitai Etzioni was an unsuccessful attempt to argue that teenager’s after school jobs are detrimental to their success. It seems Etzioni’s authority on the subject matter is questionable. The man’s tone throughout the text is condescending, and he offers a biased opinion. Furthermore, the evidence that’s offered to support the thesis is contradicting. The Israeli-American Amitai Etzioni was born in Germany, and wanted to become an electrician before dropping out and joining the Jewish army. During his time serving with the Palmach, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Battles of Latrun, and was part of the mission to defend Israel. …show more content…
So, it cannot be said that he isn’t an accomplished or worldly author, but his work has also been held under scrutiny. An author by the name of Simon Prideaux wrote the article “From Organisational Theory to the New Communitarium of Amitai Etzioni”. In it he argues that after examining Etzioni’s works, he thinks that Etzioni fails to make a prescription to our modern day societal problems and comments on “…the reliance Etzioni puts upon his sociological origins and thus expos[ing] the underlying limitations of his societal projections… [and that’s] used to substantiate an argument for the promotion of a normative society remarkably reminiscent of America in the 1950s.” (Prideaux). If the professional community can see the blind spot biased critique that the author tends to hold, we can see that the author’s text cannot hold such concrete credibility in the article that we have read as those ideologies relevant to a society 57-67 years …show more content…
Price of college is inflated and minimum wage isn’t enough to counter it. Our job prospects are lower, and trade skills are out. Our young people aren’t drafted into the war, don’t have the same housing market, and our culture has become a hook up culture. A lot has changed and so for those who offer published social commentary should seek to keep their bias and patronizing tones out of their publications. The author laments on how these chains use teens to keeps costs down, and the customer service varies as “Sometimes it is a tightly run shop…sometimes a rather loose pot party interrupted by customers.” (paragraph 16). This work experience he says pays “…for an early introduction into the most trite aspects of American consumerism: flimsy punk clothes, trinkets and whatever else is the last fast moving teen craze.” (paragraph 18) In this way Etzioni keeps on making sly comments but again struggles to circle into a good argument. A patronizing tone isn’t a replacement for facts, and isn’t a good manipulative
Critical Response to “Working at McDonald’s”
The article, “Working at McDonald’s” by Amitai Etzioni was an unsuccessful attempt to argue that teenager’s after school jobs are detrimental to their success. It seems Etzioni’s authority on the subject matter is questionable. The man’s tone throughout the text is condescending, and he offers a biased opinion. Furthermore, the evidence that’s offered to support the thesis is contradicting. The Israeli-American Amitai Etzioni was born in Germany, and wanted to become an electrician before dropping out and joining the Jewish army. During his time serving with the Palmach, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Battles of Latrun, and was part of the mission to defend Israel. …show more content…
So, it cannot be said that he isn’t an accomplished or worldly author, but his work has also been held under scrutiny. An author by the name of Simon Prideaux wrote the article “From Organisational Theory to the New Communitarium of Amitai Etzioni”. In it he argues that after examining Etzioni’s works, he thinks that Etzioni fails to make a prescription to our modern day societal problems and comments on “…the reliance Etzioni puts upon his sociological origins and thus expos[ing] the underlying limitations of his societal projections… [and that’s] used to substantiate an argument for the promotion of a normative society remarkably reminiscent of America in the 1950s.” (Prideaux). If the professional community can see the blind spot biased critique that the author tends to hold, we can see that the author’s text cannot hold such concrete credibility in the article that we have read as those ideologies relevant to a society 57-67 years …show more content…
Price of college is inflated and minimum wage isn’t enough to counter it. Our job prospects are lower, and trade skills are out. Our young people aren’t drafted into the war, don’t have the same housing market, and our culture has become a hook up culture. A lot has changed and so for those who offer published social commentary should seek to keep their bias and patronizing tones out of their publications. The author laments on how these chains use teens to keeps costs down, and the customer service varies as “Sometimes it is a tightly run shop…sometimes a rather loose pot party interrupted by customers.” (paragraph 16). This work experience he says pays “…for an early introduction into the most trite aspects of American consumerism: flimsy punk clothes, trinkets and whatever else is the last fast moving teen craze.” (paragraph 18) In this way Etzioni keeps on making sly comments but again struggles to circle into a good argument. A patronizing tone isn’t a replacement for facts, and isn’t a good manipulative