Includes bibliographical references and index.

McDonaldization: basics, studies, applications, and extensions -- An introduction to McDonaldization / George Ritzer -- Precursors : bureaucracy and Max Weber's theory of rationality, irrationality, and the iron cage / George Ritzer -- Islands of the living dead: the social geography of McDonaldization / George Ritzer -- On mass distribution : a case study of chain stores in the restaurant industry / Joel I. Nelson -- A sociology of rib joints / P.D. Holley and D.E. Wright, Jr. -- McDonald's as a Disneyized institution / Alan Bryman -- Urgent dreams : climbing, rationalization, and ambivalence / Ian Heywood -- A conversation with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast food nation -- The real price of a Big Mac : filmmaker Morgan Spurlock discusses life as a guinea pig / Biran Braiker -- McDonaldization : the major criticisms / Bryan S. Turner -- The McDonaldization of social structures and institutions -- McDonaldization of America's police, courts, and corrections / Mathew B. Robinson -- McDonaldization of the sex industries? the business of sex / Kathryn Hausbeck and Barbara G. Brents -- McDonaldization and the family / Sarah Raley -- What do hamburgers and drug care have in common? : some unorthodox remarks on the McDonaldization and rationality of drug care / Uwe E. Kemmesies -- McMorals revisited: creating irrational characters? / Suzanne S. Hudd -- The McDonaldization of the Internet / Alan Neustadtl and Meyer Kestnbaum -- McJobs: McDonaldization and its relationship to the labor process -- George Ritzer -- McWork in Europe / Tony Royle -- Supersizing farms : the McDonaldization of agriculture / Andrew J. Knight -- From creeds to burgers : religious control, spiritual search, and the future of the world / John Drane -- McCitizens : risk, coolness, and irony in contemporary politics / Bryan S. Turner -- Cathedrals of consumption : rationalization, enchantment, and disenchantment / George Ritzer -- McDonaldization and the global sports store : constructing consumer meanings in a rationalized society / Steven Miles -- Credit cards, fast-food restaurants, and rationalization / George Ritzer -- Cross-cultural analysis, social movements, and social change -- Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin R. Barber -- September 11, 2001 : mass murder and its roots in the symbolism of American consumer culture / George Ritzer -- The McLibel trial story / McSpotlight -- Mcspotlight -- Striking the golden arches : French farmers protest McD's globalization / David Morse -- Slow food / Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdock -- The debate over the relationship between McDonaldization and globalization -- Globalization and culture : three paradigms / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- McDonaldization and the global culture of consumption / Malcolm Waters -- Transnationalism, localization, and fast foods in East Asia / James L. Watson -- The McDdonald's mosaic : glocalization and diversity -- Bryan S. Turner -- Domesticating the french fry: McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Global implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization / Alan Bryman -- Glocommodification : how the global consumes the local--McDonald's in Israel / Uri Ram -- Globalization and McDonaldization : does it all amount to-- nothing? / George Ritzer -- Globaloney / Michael Veseth -- Conclusion -- Some thoughts on the future of McDonaldization / George Ritzer.