01:920:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nicholas A. Christakis, Duncan J. Watts, Food Desert
14 Aug 2019
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Process by which principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and. George nutzer argues that we are witnessing the mcdonaldization of society- the more sectors of american society as well as the rest of the world . Ritzer uses the four guiding principles of mcdonald"s restaurants (1) efficiency (2) calculability (3) uniformity (4) control. Social scientists matthew galganik, peter dodds, and duncan watts conducted research to test the effects of the influence of social networks on musical choices. Sociologists have discovered that particular communities, known as food deserts are. Nicholas christakis and james fowler"s study, title the spread of obesity in a large. Network over 32 years, published in the new england journal of medicine (2007), showed that obesity was contagious . The internet fosters the creation of new relationships, often without the emotional and social baggage or constraints that go along with face-to-face encounters. Is democracy meaningless in the face of increasingly powerful bureaucratic.
