SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mcdonaldization, George Ritzer, Law School Admission Test
22 Jan 2016
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Rules and regulations help ensure efficient work: predictability: assurance that products and services will be the same over time and place. Workers behave predictably (scripts: calculability: quantitative aspects of products sold and services offered. Expectation- much work, quickly, low pay: control: exerted over those who enter. Workers also controlled (limited number of tasks, precisely executed, threat of being replaced by technology) Technological control over workers helps mcdonalized systems assure customers of consistency: mcdonaldization: the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of. American society as well as the rest of the world : process extends into virtually every aspect of society. Predictability in education: university brochures, websites, testing, assessment, lectures. 2: students (little leeway for choosing courses, courses are highly structured, regulations, kindergarten as boot camp (authority, punctuality, etc. )
