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Rationalization and the Changing Nature of Social Life in 21st Century America
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Aldrich, Howard. 2010. “Rationalization and the Changing Nature of Social Life in 21st Century America”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/rationalization-and-the-changing-nature-of-social.

Abstract

Today, fast food restaurants have become a model for everyday life. Some scholars have even talked about the "McDonaldization" of the nation and the world. By that scholars mean a drive toward greater efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control by non-human technologies in modern organizations. This drive has shaped many features of American...

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Subject Area(s):
Organizations, Formal and Complex
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300

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