McDonaldization revisited  critical essays on consumer culture /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Mark Alfino, John S. Caputo, and Robin Wynyard ; foreword by Douglas Kellner. 
 - 1 online resource (xxvi, 201 p.) 
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword : McDonaldization and its discontents : Ritzer and his critics / Douglas Kellner -- Nostalgia and mass culture : McDonaldization and cultural elitism / Martin Parker -- It may be a polar night of icy darkness, but feminists are building a fire / Jane A. Rinehart -- The rhetoric of McDonaldization : a social semiotic perspective / John S. Caputo -- McDonaldization and the global sports store : constructing consumer meanings in a rationalized society / Steven Miles -- A sociology of rib joints / Philip D. Holley and David E. Wright, Jr. -- Old wine in new bottles : critical limitations of the McDonaldization thesis : the case of hospitality services / Roy C. Wood -- McDonaldization and consumer choice in the future : an illusion or the next marketing revolution? / Stephen Taylor, Sheena Smith, and Phil Lyon -- The McCommidification of society : rationalization and critical theory / Thomas M. Jeannot -- Missing the cultural basis of irrationality in the McDonaldization of society / Ngure wa Mwachofi -- The bunless burger / Robin Wynyard -- Postmodern hamburgers : taking a postmodern attitude toward McDonald's / Mark Alfino. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780313388989 0313388989 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>McDonald's Corporation--Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumer behavior.<br/>Consumption (Economics)<br/>Fast food restaurants--Social aspects.<br/>Social structure.<br/>Fastfood.<br/>Sociale ontwikkeling.<br/>Consumptie.<br/>Consumptiepatroon.<br/>Consumentengedrag.<br/>Consommateurs--Comportement.<br/>Consommation (Économie politique)<br/>Restaurants-minute--Aspect social.<br/>Structure sociale.<br/>Zivilisation<br/>Fast Food<br/>Aufsatzsammlung<br/>Verbraucherverhalten<br/>Massenkultur
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>USA
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HF5415.32  / .M395 1998eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.0973