Explorations in the sociology of consumption : fast food, credit cards and casinos / George Ritzer.
"In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how McDo...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The Irrationality of Rationality -- |t Some Thoughts on the Future of McDonaldization -- |t The Process of McDonaldization is Not Uniform: Nor are Its Settings, Consumers or the Consumption of Its Goods and Services -- |t Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society -- |t Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption -- |t Ensnared in the E-Net: The Future Belongs to the Immaterial Means of Consumption -- |t Globalization Theory: Lessons from the Exportation of McDonaldization and the New Means of Consumption -- |t The New Means of Consumption and the Situationist Perspective -- |t Thorstein Veblen in the Age of Hyperconsumption -- |t Obscene from Any Angle: Fast Food, Credit Cards, Casinos and Consumers. |
| 520 | |a "In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how McDonaldization might be resisted, and situates the reader in the new cultural spaces that are emerging in society: shopping malls, casino hotels, Disneyfied theme parks and Las Vegas, the new `cathedrals of consumption' as he calls them. The book shows how new processes of consumption relate to globalization theory. In illuminating discussions of the work of Thorstein Veblen and the French situationists, Ritzer unearths the roots of problems of consumption in older sociological traditions. He indicates how transgression is bound up with consumption, through an investigation of the obscene in popular and postmodern culture. ; Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption will be required reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and anyone interested in the pattern of consumption processes in contemporary society."--Publisher description. | ||
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