McDonaldization

INTRODUCTION Everyone has some involvement with food, therefore it is the common thread among people from different backgrounds, religions, cultural or ethnic groups, and even socioeconomic classes. It can bring people together as well as clarify differences between them. Cookbooks and recipes reflect a society and are a snapshot of where the nation stands in its history.₁ Examining eating – perhaps the most instinctive and basic human act – can point out social and political processes,…

Introduction Work constantly evolves due to advancing technologies, enlightened management strategies, work reorganization, neoliberal government policies, union involvement, globalization, and environmental sustainability issues. A growing service- and knowledge-based economy in Canada supersedes the historical agricultural and production-based one, and this poses new challenges to the state, management, and workers in the employment relationship and within the labour market. Decisions made by…

showing there are splits among civilizations (Anderson, 11/10). Though there are those like Jose Bove who fear globalization and a loss of culture, there seems to be less of a homogination of culture and more of a hybridization. This is seen by “McDonaldization,” where the efficient business and manufacturing style are homogenized but are mixed with adaptions to local culinary tastes and service styles (Goedde, 578, 579). This shows not a polarization of cultures as Huntington predicted but an…

Globalization is a phenomenon resulting in, increasing flow of goods in international borders and is the same in case of service, people, technology and culture (Held et al 1999,p.16). Robert Giplin, a decorated political scientist quotes globalization as, “increasing interdependencies and national economies in trade, macroeconomic policies and finance”(Giplin 1987,p.389). Jones argued this by stating that economical growth is a subset of globalization. It is not the only growth one looks for…