For Monday, 4/20

Prep

  • George Ritzer, ‘The McDonaldization of Society’ Journal of American Culture (1983), pp.100-107
    • Ritzer identifies five characteristics of what he calls ‘McDonaldization’. Can you identify an example of each in the opening scenes of this cult classic by Terry Gilliam?

In Class Zoom Session

  • TBA

For Next Time

  • Conley (2015), Ch. 7 (‘Stratification’): ‘Views of Inequality’; ‘Standards of Equality’; ‘Forms of Stratification’

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