McDonaldization is the term Ritzer derived from the McDonalds’ fast-food chain to describe the state of our society. Ritzer claims our social institutions have become completely dehumanized in the form of a bureaucracy. Health care is an example of one institution that is characterized by the four components of bureaucracy: efficiency, predictability, control, and quantification.…
Globalization is a worldwide scale of growth, an ongoing process where economies, cultures, and societies are being increasingly integrated. Today, it has become a very controversial issue. Globalization has both positive and negative effects on the world. Positive effects include the reality that large-scale companies that once only outsourced to western countries are now trading…
The ‘Big Mac Index’ tries to use the prices of Big Macs in different countries to compare the accuracy of the exchange rates for different currencies. This is possible because McDonald’s operates in over 100 countries and the Big Mac is uniform in size and content in all countries The ‘Golden Arches Theory’ is that…