SOCI201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Iron Cage, International Inequality, Mcdonaldization

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Perez Victor

Document Summary

Exam 3 study guide and helpful questions: formal rationality shaped by rules regulations and larger social structures. Efficiency optimum method for getting from one point to another. Predictability assurance that products will be the same everywhere any time. Calculability quantity over quality, quantitative aspects of products sold and services control (non human technology) machinery. The bureaucracy and trying to fulfill its needs becoming more important than the individual: factory settings alienation from: Other workers (b/c competition w/ one another; easily replaceable) Products they produce (don"t even know uses) Mcdonaldization involves constantly producing new consumers, as well as goods, through standardized methods of production, involving ever increasing uses of technology and rational forms of organization. Dimensions and examples ikea self check out self assembly, arby"s burger size. Irrationality of rationality - a less efficient, controlling, homogeneous experience and product, that is also dehumanizing and un-personable. Rationality and mass production of stuff makes globalization hum: globalization and inequality.