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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Includes bibliographical references (page 255) and index
