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George Ritzer

Enchanting a Disenchanted World

Continuity and Change in the Cathedrals of Consumption

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Enchanting a Disenchanted World, Third Edition is about Disney, about malls, about Cruise Lines, Las Vegas, the World Wide Web, Planet Hollywood, Credit Cards, and all other ways we now consume.Its thesis is that our society has undergone fundamental change because of the way and the level at which we consume. In the process of taking capitalism to a new level, we have created new cathedrals of consumption (places which enchant us in order to stay longer and consume more), but these places of consumption (whether in our home or at the mall or in cyberspace) are in a constant state of enchanting the disenchanted because their rational qualitie… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4129-7581-0
  • EAN: 9781412975810
  • Produktnummer: 19318881
  • Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 376 g
  • Auflage: 3 Revised edition
  • Gewicht: 376
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association, an honorary doctorate from LaTrobe University in Australia, and the Robin Williams Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. His best-known work, The McDonaldization of Society (8th ed.), has been read by hundreds of thousands of students over two decades and translated into over a dozen languages. Ritzer is also the editor of McDonaldization: The Reader; and author of other works of critical sociology related to the McDonaldization thesis, including Enchanting a Disenchanted World, The Globalization of Nothing, Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society, as well as a series best-selling social theory textbooks and Globalization: A Basic Text. He is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2 vols.), the Encyclopedia of Sociology (11 vols.; 2nd edition forthcoming), the Encyclopedia of Globalization (5 vols.), and is Founding Editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture. In 2016 he will publish the second edition of Essentials of Sociology with SAGE.

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