RE220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mcdonaldization, Mcjob, Telling Stories
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Drawing on the classic work of sociologist max weber on bureaucracy. The ability to create community, games or food , that people can find and access on an global level is important to religion culture. Fast food restaurants principles dominating more and more of american society and the rest of the world. Its principle on ways on doing this spreader to other fast food production. All versions in some way of geographic spread and influence globally and also draw on max. Interested in terms what happened to production when many people are involved. Documentary on supersize me and it documents the mcdonald diet. Taking the same steps food ingredients preparation scale someone has a product and reproduce it and can be recognizably and meet consumers expectations. Employees are trained the same in every single store. Walt disney family movies, children product tie in used in mcdonalds. Standardized procedures and clear-cut rules that are designed to perform some type of work.
