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Title Resisting McDonaldization / edited by Barry Smart.

Publication Info. London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 255) and index.
Contents Resisting McDonaldization : theory, process and critique / Barry Smart -- Golden arches and iron cages : McDonaldization and the poverty of cultural pessimism at the end of the twentieth century / Christiane Bender and Gianfranco Poggi -- Have you had your theory today? / John O'Neill -- McDonaldization enframed / Deena Weinstein and Michael A. Weinstein -- Rich food : McDonald's and modern life / Joanne Finkelstein -- McCitizens : risk, coolness and irony in contemporary politics / Bryan S. Turner -- Theme parks and McDonaldization / Alan Bryman -- McDonaldization of sport and leisure / David Jary -- McDonaldized culture : the end of communication? / Richard Münch -- Art centres : Southern folk art and the splintering of a hegemonic market / Gary Alan Fine -- Dennis Hopper, McDonald's and Nike / Norman K. Denzin -- Theorizing/resisting McDonaldization : a multiperspectivist approach / Douglas Kellner -- Moral malaise of McDonaldization : the values of vegetarianism / Keith Tester -- McFascism? Reading Ritzer, Bauman and the Holocaust / Peter Beilharz -- Assessing the resistance / George Ritzer.
Summary The McDonaldization theory argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardisation, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text engages in a critical appraisal of this thesis.
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Subject McDonald's Corporation.
McDonald's Corporation.
McDonald's (Firm)
McDonald's Corporation -- Influence.
McDonald's Corporation.
Consumer behavior.
Consumer behavior.
Franchises (Retail trade)
Franchises (Retail trade)
Marketing.
Marketing.
Consumption (Economics)
Consumption (Economics)
Capitalism.
Capitalism.
Fast food restaurants.
Fast food restaurants.
Industrial management.
Industrial management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Smart, Barry.
Other Form: Print version: Resisting McDonaldization. London : Sage, 1999 9780761955184 (DLC) 98061886 (OCoLC)41414836
ISBN 9780857026187 (electronic book)
0857026186 (electronic book)
9781446217627 (ebook)
1446217620 (ebook)
0761955178 (hc. ; alkaline paper)
9780761955177 (hc. ; alkaline paper)
0761955186 (paperback)
9780761955184 (paperback)