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).
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he Open Society The concept of an open society is a term first employed by Sir Karl Popper in his 1950 book the Open Society and Its Enemies. ... There are many reasons for the suggestion that an open society is a true and fair society. ... Not just for the individual but for the society as a whole. ... Of course oppression is the largest issue for an open society. ... Of course, in this case, we would not be able to look at the views of the society critically and in such a society, cruel and false beliefs can spread rapidly. ...
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Introduction The Australian society has five major types of law within it. ... Criminal laws exist so that the people within a society can feel safe and protected, although crimes are increasing more and more every day, especially in young people. A crime is a wrong that is commited against a society, society nowadays has a bnch of rules which should be followed so everything can function efficiently and effectively. ...
The Puritan Society was a very restrictive, repressive, and socially constrictive one. Every member of the society had a strict role to fill. Any one who fell outside of their appropriate role in society was shunned, insulted, exiled, or tortured to death. The Puritan Society was stratified by many different factors. ...
The McDonaldization of Society The McDonaldization of Society is a book written by George Ritzer. This book critiques the way society is run in focus to the franchise McDonalds. The term McDonaldization in my opinion is one way of showing how one company or business could take over society and be placed all over the world. ... The book places McDonalds in many situations, which allow society to be apart of the "McDonaldized World". ... As little as a children's trip to Walt Disney World can cause problems in society where money is being a huge waste. ...
