Mcdonaldiztion In Society

            
             The Book McDonaldization, written by George Ritzer, seems to stress the point that corporations are dehumanizing people within our society, as we know it. With our necessity to make life easier, and feel safer, we are allowing other people and corporations to control what is best for us, and tell us what we need. It also shows how the many ways this is incorporated into our society. I found this book very interesting, and agreed with everything that Ritzer had stated. I also found it interesting on how we are allowing others to control us within our "self controllable society" without even knowing it, or accepting the fact that it is happening.
             One of the most influential points that Ritzer made within the book, is one that people are constantly being replaced with robots, or if not, are being taught to act like robots themselves. I do not think I noticed how many ways that not just the workers are created to act, and react to their environment, but how the customers are taught to do the same until I read this book. We are taught that fast food restaurants, banks, and so many more corporations, "do it all for you", where in all actuality, we are doing more and more of the work (page 57). I found it interesting on how we are controlled to do more and more of the work, as time moves on. We are expected to stand in line, bring the food to our table, dispose of the waste and nicely put our trays away, apposed to being waited on, and having all that done for us (pages 57-58). We are expected to do more and more tasks that people were paid to do, for free. .
             Ritzer stresses the point on how we are being controlled many times within in the book; that customers are being controlled to better suit the corporate world. We are placed on the conveyer belt on line, either within the store, or fast food restaurant, or outside on the drive thru line, where we move along the line, using our own gas in our cars (page 113).