Keywords
Work and Labor Markets
How to Cite
Treiber, Linda. 2013. “McJobs and Pieces of Flair: Linking McDonaldization to Alienating Work”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, October. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/mcjobs-and-pieces-of-flair-linking-mcdonaldization.
Abstract
This article offers strategies for teaching about rationality, bureaucracy, and social change using George Ritzer’s The McDonaldization of Society and its ideas about efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control. Student learning is facilitated using a series of strategies: making the familiar strange, explaining McDonaldization,...Download this resource to see full details. Download this resource to see full details.
Details
- Subject Area(s):
- Organizations, Formal and Complex
- Resource Type(s):
- Assignment
- Class Level(s):
- Any Level
- Class Size(s):
- Any
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