Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos

In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous Mc Donaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how Mc Donaldization might be resisted, and situates the reader in the new cultural spaces that are emerging in society: shopping malls, casino hotels, Disneyfied theme parks and Las Vegas — the new ‘cathedra...