Explorations in the sociology of consumption : fast food, credit cards and casinos
Contains the author's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory. According to Ritzer, sociology is a multi paradigm science. This book seeks to find a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of a new integrated sociological paradigm
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9781412933292, 9780761971191, 9780761971207, 9781446220801, 9781446227893, 9781280370595, 9786610370597, 1412933293, 076197119X, 0761971203, 144622080X, 1446227898, 1280370599, 6610370591
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1
Writing to be Read; Chapter 2
The Irrationality of Rationality; Chapter 3
Some Thoughts on the Future of McDonaldization; Chapter 4
The process of McDonaldization is not uniform: Nor are it's settings, consumer or the consumption of its goods and services; Chapter 5
Expressing America: A critique of the global credit card society; Chapter 6
Enchanting a disenchanted; Chapter 7
Ensnared in the e-net: The future belongs to the immaterial means of consumption
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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