Efficiency is the optimal method to ensure the transition from one state to another. The smaller operations in the process the better systems are McDonaldizied. As an example - instead of the traditional courtship people increasingly prefer online dating, because it is faster and easier. Predictability is a guarantee that all products and services are the same at any time and in any place. Coming to any part of the globe, people expect the same product in a local McDonalds as in the McDonald's close to home. Calculability means an emphasis on quantitative aspects of products sold (serving size, cost) and services (the time required to produce something). Here an emphasis lies on quantitative indicators. The example is a pizza delivery speed, as it affects the quality of the food. The downside is fatal accidents involving young Pizza Man.
Finally, the control over the people using nonhuman technologies is shown by the example of control over customers in McDonalds, customers are given the prompts, e.g., they see garbage cans, especially at the output. At first glance, these principles are so self-evident that it is not impossible to notice them: striving for maximum efficiency, one obviously has to count his/her efforts, trying to act in a predictable manner and implemented in this regard, the necessary control. A closer look allows seeing a more complex picture here. For example, the principle of calculability - it obviously requires really accurate calculation from those who take it on board, which in turn means that: 1) it must be calculated, which also allows the other three principle expressed quantitatively (relative to time and place, and etc.); 2) anything that is not amenable to precise calculation (and it may be very important things), should be discarded, thus remaining outside the planning; 3) because the payment took place, then it should be a guide to action for strict compliance; 4) that, in turn, implies hierarchical organization of action, when the initiative belongs to those who are 'above', and the other should play the role of an obedient executor (Ritzer, 2014).
"McDonaldization" is a term that was used by George Ritzer. ... McDonaldization has its pros and cons. I think industry relies on mcdonaldization so much that modern day life depends on this process. ... Most college research depends on accessibility to the internet, so in such a case mcdonaldization is a blessing. ... No matter what views anybody has on this subject at hand, escaping mcdonaldization is impossible. ...
I will discuss how some of the dimensions of McDonaldization are present in my life. ... Ritzer states McDonaldized systems function efficiently by following the steps in a predesigned process (Ritzer 13). ... These dimensions' have a positive effect. ...
Many believe, an effect of this type of globalization is the promotion and spread of capitalism and American cultural ideals. ... This specific spread of American movies, music, clothes and food is referred to as "Mcdonaldization". The belief among many Europeans is that cultural globalization in essence is "Mcdonaldization". According to the article "Pokemania vs. dreaded global trade" (Arizona republic Nov, 28, 1999) It is believed Mcdonaldization "leads inexorably to the triumph of American culture" The French feel so strongly about resisting "Mcdonaldazation" that they have "repeatedly ...
Shichor discusses how the "three strikes" law and the Mcdonaldization concept are similar in the components of inefficiency, incalculability, unpredictability, and lack of control. ... I believe that a person's childhood learning experiences has a total effect on their future....
'Glocalization' is a controversial process and seemingly would be opposed to by the Radicals/Marxists as in George Ritzer's thesis of "The McDonaldization of Society" he describes 'McDonaldization' as "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 the rest of the world." ... The fact that McDonalds operates in developing countries such as Guatemala would also be an adverse effect in the view of the radical/Marxist as high unemployment levels are already typical in these type ...
Because of this, television is said to have a "Globalizing" effect, in which the whole world is linked through television. ... "It is the McDonaldization of education, and not scholarly inquiry, which is fostered by the popular culture's current obsession with techno-fixes that combine drug and computer-mediated learning for profit." ... From televisions having an effect on what we wear, and teachers having an effect on how we think, we can see the effects that popular culture has on our schools. ...
Does McDonald's offer a model which other businesses should follow? At first, most people must have laughed at the idea of a chain of restaurants selling identical products all over the country, but little did they know that the genius idea that they had mocked would go on to revolutionise the busi...
George Ritzer was an American sociologist that studied the patterns of consumption and was also the author of The Mcdonaldization of Society. Ritzer describes the term Mcdonaldization as "the process by which principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world.... The overall results showed "a strong positive effect of exposure to fast-food restaurant advertising on the probability that children and adolescents are overweight.... A large majority of George Ritzer's ideas from The Mcdonaldization...
Some people claim that globalization or the "Coca-colonization" and "McDonaldization" of the globe will at length destroy traditional cultures. ... The effect is a noticeable amount of homogenization. ...