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Disadvantages Of Mcdonaldization

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Mc-Everything Have you ever felt like your days are all the same? Wherever you go you don’t feel out of place because everything is so similar? Whether you are on your way to work or going out for happy hour, there isn’t much of a difference because nothing changes? Well, one thing changes during happy hour, your mood. But this is irrelevant to the point I am trying to make. Whether you’re walking down the street in your neighborhood or you are on the other side of the city, nothing is different. Welcome to the Mcdonaldization era. McDonaldization is the process by which the principles of the fast- food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world. (Ritzer 2004: 05). I’m afraid …show more content…

I talked about the disadvantages of McDonaldization and what it causes, and since everything has two sides, I will discuss now what McDonaldization causes that’s seen as thumbs up! One of the great things that have been caused by McDonaldization is the availability of wide ranges of great goods and services to a greater portion of the population than any time before (Ritzer 2004: 15). It also lessened the goods’ and services’ dependence on time duration of when they will arrive, and also less dependence on the geographic location of a country (Ritzer 2004: 16). Products are more economical, and quality is more uniform (Ritzer 2004: 16). Most popular products of any globalized corporation that are well known in a dominant culture an be easily diffused to another culture (Ritzer 2004: 16). The list goes on and on but the last point I would like to mention that is seen as an advantage of McDonaldization is that people are more likely to be treated similarly, regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or any “label” that is seen today as a discriminating tool that we use among one another to favor with one race rather than the other (Ritzer 2004: 16).

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