McDonaldization

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a darkly satirical view of the future of the world engineered through a genetically predetermined caste system. He describes a world where individual rights are sacrificed for the well being and function of society as a whole, and strong emotions and personal ties are therefore removed. People do not have families or lovers that would incite strong emotional feelings. The whole purpose is to create a productive society, and this is accomplished by giving each…

than a single paternal income. This does not mean that homes are now messier; the evolution of technology, like a washer machine and a dryer, has cut the time needed to finish household chores. With the reduction of housework, issues such as McDonaldization has become a problem because many families spend less time preparing meal and use fast food as alternatives. Both husband and wives are seen spending more time with their children by cutting down visits with other relatives and…

Product Line Rationalization Product line rationalization is a very substantial approach to revamp their profits, ease in their logistics, free and utilize their resources, and also as it encourages the employees to work efficiently as it simplifies their work. Product line rationalization is also known as Pareto’s Principle. Intrinsically, a company’s 80% of the profitability or turnover is only because of the 20% of its products in the market. This occurs, as all the organization give emphasis…

Sport related injuries in children and young adults (ages 5-24) account for over 2.6 million visits to the emergency room each year in the United States alone (Goldberg, Moroz, Smith, Ganley, 2007, pg. 265). The increase in sport participation among junior high, high school and college sports, which has led to the rise in injuries, strains for improved rehabilitation and better injury prevention. As the sport world ever changes and the societal demand for more efficient athletes becomes…

Coffee Is Spilling Everywhere One of the fastest growing industries today is the coffee industry, especially Starbucks, as it has a seven percent annual growth rate (Goldschein 1). These days, it is now impossible to go into a town without seeing a single Starbucks shop due to their intensification and stretching in globalization. Globalization is the exchange of ideas, products, and culture between nations. Thanks to globalization, Coffee has become the world’s second most traded commodity,…

Conflict Prevention” suggests that countries that host McDonald’s do not go to war with each other, echoing capitalist peace theory. While this is an optimistic outlook of globalization, George Ritzer presents a more dismal outlook in his book, The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Social Life. McDonald’s embodies efficiency and division of labor––it is the mass production guided by assembly lines that Marx and Engels feared. The culture of McDonald’s is…

Volti believes that work is the “central activity in the lives of most people.” Understanding the Sociology of work is important, because work takes up so much of our lives. Where we work, what we do at work and who we work for are characteristics of our identities and determines who we make our friends. When work is boring, the workers feel undermined and this perpetuates a culture that exploits the proletariat/workers and adds value to the capitalist/firm. My subject, my mother, described…

Food Inc. Film Review The way human eat has changed for the worse in the last fifty years. The movie Food, Inc. presents a shocking discovery on corporate farming and the development of the food industry. The director of this movie, Robert Kenner, uses numerous approaches to prove how unnatural and dangerous today’s food can be from the chicken farm to the chemically treated massive amount of meat. The movie is divided in three main parts. The first one focuses on the inhumane production of…

children banned together and MS-13 was born. They operate like a white collar crime gang regarding using business and smarts to make money. It offers employment to young gang members. The Gang has a hierarchy and there is an initiation (or hazing) into the gang which typically involves being “jumped” or beaten by other gang members before they can become a member. They also must shoot someone to earn the respect of the other gang members and to be given their stripes. The elders educate the…

departures from a more traditional, religious interpretation of life to a more bureaucratic, rational, and practical interpretation (Germov, 2014; Schofield, 2015). George Ritzer expanded on this theory of Rationalization through the concept of ‘McDonaldization’ through utilising the highly regularised, managerial McDonald’s food chain as a template to show that society is increasingly becoming more rationalised and controlled by society’s fascination with predictability and efficiency (Van…