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Explain the irrationality of rationality of the four properties of McDonaldization and apply them after you go to mcdonalds

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:23:30
Category: / Entertainment
Length: 6 pages (1565 words)
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"McDonaldization,...is 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". These are the words of George Ritzer comparing the processes incorporated by the McDonald franchise and the impact of social structural change on human interaction and identity. He illustrates the linkage between the irrationality of rationality with the four properties of social organization …

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