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?
https://youtu.be/XGge4rj4v_Y

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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