TY - BOOK ID - 126558883 TI - The McDonaldization of society : into the digital age PY - 2021 SN - 9781544398013 1544398018 PB - Thousand Oaks: Sage, DB - UniCat KW - Social structure KW - Management KW - Fast food restaurants KW - Rationalization (Psychology) KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:126558883 AB - "The McDonaldization of Society is George Ritzer's seminal work of critical sociology that updates and applies Max Weber's rationalization thesis to the the late 20th and early 21st century. The central premise of McDonaldization is that the fast food restaurant has become the model for the rationalization process today, creating a system of operation based on efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control that has been adopted across a wide ranges of businesses, organizations, and social institutions"-- ER -