SOC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: George Ritzer, Tv Dinner, Gore Vidal
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Using mcdoland"s as a paradigm (cid:523)!! (cid:524), ritzer argues that our society became similar to that the way mcdoland"s operating, specifically with respect to. A society characterized by rationality is one which emphasizes efficiency, rationality. predictability, calculability, substitution of non-human for human technology and control over uncertainty. Even leisure time (when we want to get out of efficiency and rationality) we do this rationally. Technology/robots in the replacement of the human. Dark side of rationality: whose control, irrationality of rationality. There are so many theories, similar. , e. g. , rational choice theory! The assumption that non-western societies are irrational is wrong. The binary between rational and irrational is difficult to make. (cid:498)persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the american political elite from the beginning. (cid:499) gore. Rebellion is not what most people think it is.
