Title Explorations in the sociology of consumption : fast food, credit cards and casinos / George Ritzer.

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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 257 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247) and index.
Contents	Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Writing to be Read; Chapter 2 -- The Irrationality of Rationality; Chapter 3 -- Some Thoughts on the Future of McDonaldization; Chapter 4 -- The process of McDonaldization is not uniform: Nor are it's settings, consumer or the consumption of its goods and services; Chapter 5 -- Expressing America: A critique of the global credit card society; Chapter 6 -- Enchanting a disenchanted; Chapter 7 -- Ensnared in the e-net: The future belongs to the immaterial means of consumption.
Summary	Contains the author's latest reflections on the uses and misuses of metatheory. According to Ritzer, sociology is a multi paradigm science. This book seeks to find a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of a new integrated sociological paradigm.
Note	Print version record.
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Subject	Consumer behavior -- Social aspects.
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
	Comportamiento del consumidor -- Aspectos sociales.
	Consumo (Economía) -- Aspectos sociales.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Consumer behavior -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00876251
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00876475
	Consumptie.
	Fastfood.
	Credit cards.
	Sociologische aspecten.
Other Form:	Print version: Ritzer, George. Explorations in the sociology of consumption. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001 076197119X 9780761971191 (DLC) 2001269483 (OCoLC)45829754
ISBN	9781412933292 (electronic bk.)
	1412933293 (electronic bk.)
	9781446220801 (electronic bk.)
	144622080X (electronic bk.)

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