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According to Wikipedia, George Ritzer is an American sociologist, professor, and author who has mainly studied globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern/postmodern social theory. His concept of McDonaldization draws upon Max Weber's idea of rationalization through the lens of the fast food industry. He coined the term in a 1983 article for The Journal of American Culture, developing the concept in The McDonaldization of Society , which is among the best selling monographs in the history of American sociology.

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The Paradigm dialog (1990) (1939)
Production, Consumption, Prosumption (2010) (1387)
The McDonaldization of Society (1994) (1175)
The Sociology of the Professions (1988) (640)
Enchanting a disenchanted world : revolutionizing the means of consumption (1999) (616)
The McDonaldization of society : an investigation into the changing character of contemporary social life (1993) (558)
Sociology : A Multiple Paradigm Science (1975) (486)
The Coming of Age of the Prosumer (2012) (419)
The Globalization of Nothing 2 (2003) (408)
The McDonaldization Thesis: (1996) (389)
The McDonaldization Thesis: Explorations and Extensions (1997) (346)
The Globalization of Nothing (2002) (337)
An Empirical Study of Howard Becker's Side-Bet Theory (1969) (313)
Contemporary Sociological Theory (1983) (282)
Modern Sociological Theory (1996) (280)
Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing* (2003) (256)
“McDisneyization” and “Post-Tourism:” Complementary Perspectives on Contemporary Tourism (1998) (251)
Prosumption: Evolution, revolution, or eternal return of the same? (2014) (242)
Enchanting A Disenchanted World (1999) (236)
Encyclopedia of social theory (2004) (223)
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics (2002) (216)
Rationalization and the Deprofessionalization of Physicians (1988) (211)
All-Consuming@@@Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption@@@The Sociology of Consumption: An Introduction@@@Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia (1998) (210)
The Blackwell companion to globalization (2007) (194)
Classical Sociological Theory (1992) (193)
Globalization: A Basic Text (2009) (189)
The consumer society reader (2001) (185)
Metatheorizing in sociology (1992) (181)
Occupations and the Social Structure. (1970) (177)
Structuration Theory (2007) (174)
Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1996) (171)
McDonaldization : the reader (2002) (164)
Handbook of Social Theory (2001) (155)
Professionalization, Bureaucratization and Rationalization: The Views of Max Weber (1975) (151)
The Blackwell companion to major contemporary social theorists (2003) (137)
Professionals as Workers: Mental Labor in Advanced Capitalism. (1983) (135)
The grobal in the sporting glocal (2007) (129)
Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos (2001) (126)
The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology (2007) (124)
Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization (2001) (119)
Working, conflict and change (1977) (112)
Globalization: The Essentials (2011) (112)
Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Continuity and Change in the Cathedrals of Consumption (2009) (112)
The McDonaldization of Society: Revised New Century Edition (2000) (105)
Prosumer Capitalism (2015) (104)
McUniversity in the Postmodern Consumer Society (1996) (72)
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations (1989) (71)
Sociological Metatheory: A Defense of a Subfield by a Delineation of Its Parameters (1988) (68)
The “New” World of Prosumption: Evolution, “Return of the Same,” or Revolution? (2015) (65)
Handbook of social problems : a comparative international perspective (2004) (64)
The McDonalization of society (2005) (62)
Automating prosumption: The decline of the prosumer and the rise of the prosuming machines (2015) (60)
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (2017) (57)
Frontiers of social theory : the new syntheses (1991) (56)
Paradigms and Revolutions: Applications and Appraisals of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science (1980) (56)
Globalization Theory: Lessons from the Exportation of McDonaldization and the New Means of Consumption (2000) (52)
BRINGING EMOTION TO WORK : EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE , EMPLOYEE RESISTANCE AND THE REINVENTION OF CHARACTER (2009) (50)
Sport and prosumption (2018) (45)
Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology (1992) (44)
The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (2011) (42)
Islands of the Living Dead (2003) (42)
Man and his work: conflict and change (1974) (42)
Focusing on the Prosumer (2010) (40)
Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization (2003) (38)
The Modern Las Vegas Casino-Hotel: The Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption (2001) (36)
Toward an integrated sociological paradigm : the search for an exemplar and an image of the subject matter / by George Ritzer (1983) (34)
The changing nature of consumption and the intensification of McDonaldization in the digital age (2018) (32)
The Blackwell companion to major social theorists (2000) (32)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists: Ritzer/The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (2011) (31)
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology (2016) (29)
Readings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates (2012) (29)
An occupation in conflict : a study of the personnel manager (1970) (29)
The McDonaldization of Medicine. (2016) (29)
13. Micro-Macro Linkage in Sociological Theory: Applying a Metatheoretical Tool (1990) (29)
The Rise of Micro-Sociological Theory (1985) (25)
The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists (2003) (24)
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization: Ritzer/Blackwell (2007) (23)
Metatheorizing in Sociology: The Basic Parameters and the Potential Contributions of Postmodernism (2001) (22)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (2012) (22)
The velvet cage of educational con(pro)sumption (2018) (21)
Sociological Adventures: Earle Edward Eubank's Visits with European Sociologists (1992) (20)
The Weberian Theory of Rationalization and the McDonaldization of Contemporary Society (2007) (20)
The Permanently New Economy (1989) (20)
Max Weber, critical theory, and the administered world (1981) (20)
Adorno on Popular Culture (2004) (20)
Hospitality and prosumption (2015) (19)
Chapter 10 – Inhospitable Hospitality? (2007) (19)
Positivism in the Twentieth Century (2001) (18)
Theories of consumption (2001) (18)
Multicultural experiences, multicultural theories (1996) (18)
An Occupation in Conflict. (1970) (17)
Sociology, experiencing a changing society (1979) (17)
Introduction: Theorists, theories and theorizing (2001) (17)
Problems, Scandals, and the Possibility of "Textbookgate": An Author's View (1988) (17)
Compulsory Heterosexuality In: Ritzer, G., ed. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) (16)
Assessing the Resistance (1999) (16)
Sociology of Work: A Metatheoretical Analysis (1989) (16)
Americanisation, McDonaldisation and Globalisation (2004) (15)
Sociological Beginnings: On The Origins of Key Ideas In Sociology (1994) (14)
Becoming a Dentist. (1973) (14)
Writing to be Read: Changing the Culture and Reward Structure of American Sociology (1998) (14)
Émile Durkheim: Exemplar for an Integrated Sociological Paradigm? (1981) (13)
Reflections on the Rise of Metatheorizing in Sociology (1991) (13)
“Hyperconsumption” and “Hyperdebt”: A “Hypercritical” Analysis (2012) (13)
From “Solid” Producers and Consumers to “Liquid” Prosumers (2014) (13)
‘McDISNEYIZATION’ AND ‘POST-TOURISM’: COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY : Complementary perspectives on contemporary tourism (2002) (13)
Paradigm Analysis in Sociology: Clarifying the Issues (1981) (12)
Who's a public intellectual? (2006) (12)
On the Problem of Clarifying Commitment Theory (1970) (12)
Sociology : A Multiple Paradigm Science, Revised Edition (1980) (11)
Dealing with the Welcome Critiques of “Prosumer Capitalism” (2015) (10)
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots, 4/E (2016) (10)
The Current State of Sociological Theory: A Critical Interpretation. (1976) (10)
1. The Current Status of Sociological Theory: The New Syntheses (1990) (9)
Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (2006) (9)
The changing nature of American medicine. (1986) (9)
The Dynamics of Service: Reflections on the Changing Nature of Customer/Provider Interactions, by Barbara Gutek (1996) (8)
The Changing Nature of Neo-Marxist Theory: A Metatheoretical Analysis (1991) (8)
The magical world of consumption : Transforming nothing into something (2005) (8)
McJobs: McDonaldization and its Relationship to the Labor Process (1998) (8)
An Occupation in Conflict-A Study of the Personnel Manager. (1970) (8)
The recent history and the emerging reality of American sociological theory: A metatheoretical interpretation (1991) (8)
Occupations and organizations in American society : the organization-dominated man? (1974) (8)
The Technological Society: Social Theory, McDonaldization and the Prosumer (2013) (8)
3. Surfing the Net for Community: 3. A Durkheimian Analysis of Electronic Gatherings 73 (2001) (8)
Mannheim's Theory of Rationalization: An Alternative Resource for the McDonaldization Thesis? (1998) (7)
Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond (2008) (7)
Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the “New” Prosumer (2018) (7)
Conceptualizing globalization in terms of flows (2010) (6)
Still enamoured of the glocal: A comment on ‘From local to grobal, and back’ (2012) (6)
Preface: The coming of age of sociological metatheorizing (1990) (6)
The Personnel Manager: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment. (1979) (6)
Can there really be ‘True’ alternatives within the food and drink markets? If so, can they survive as alternative forms? (2017) (6)
The Globalization of Nothing and the Outsourcing of Service Work (2008) (6)
From production and consumption to prosumption : A personal journey and its larger context (2017) (6)
A Review Symposium of George Ritzer: The Globalization of Nothing (2004) (6)
A sociological approach to social problems (1992) (6)
Social Problems: A Comparative International Perspective (2004) (5)
The Sociology of Consumption (2012) (5)
The Micro-Macro Link: Problems and Prospects@@@The Micro-Macro Link. (1988) (5)
Essentials of Sociology (2014) (5)
Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses (1992) (5)
Of Levels and "Intellectual Amnesia" (1989) (5)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology: Ritzer/The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology (2011) (5)
Developing insights into contemporary con(pro)sumer culture based on classical ideas in social theory (2017) (5)
Sociology: Experiencing Changing Societies, Economy Version (1980) (4)
The New Means of Consumption: A Postmodern Analysis (2005) (4)
The Legitimation and Institutionalization of Metatheorizing in Sociology (1992) (4)
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists: Ritzer/Blackwell (2007) (3)
Rooting for the "Devil": Baseball, the Yankees, Shane Spencer (Who?), and Social Theory (2006) (3)
Ignoring Credit and Consumption Discredits Sociology (2011) (3)
Are We Consuming Beyond Our Means? The Debate Over, and Resistance To, Excessive Consumption and Debt (2013) (3)
Editorial (2001) (3)
The McDonaldization of American Sociology: A Metasociological Analysis (1998) (3)
Sociology : a multiple paradigm science / by George Ritzer (1980) (3)
Biography: A (Still) Underutilized Metasociological Method@@@Authors of their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists.@@@Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood.@@@Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform. (1991) (3)
The Internet, Web 2.0, and Beyond (2012) (3)
Sociology : experiencing a changing society / by Geoge Ritzer, kenneth C.W. Kammeyer, Norman R. Yetman (1979) (3)
Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Syntheses. (1991) (2)
Collective Memory: Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005) (2)
Landscapes of Consumption (2010) (2)
Creative Destruction and Cultural Lag in the Digital Age (2020) (2)
Globalization, McDonaldization and Americanization (1998) (2)
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory. (1979) (2)
Occupations and the Social Structure. By Richard H. Hall. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969. 393 pp. $7.95 (1970) (2)
Socioeconomics (1990) (2)
The Failure to Integrate Theory and Practice: The Case of the Sociology of Work (1981) (2)
Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (2019) (2)
Transformations in consumer settings: Landscapes and beyond (2005) (2)
Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedias in social science (2012) (2)
Organizations as coercive institutions (2007) (2)
Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science.@@@Beneath the Surface. (1976) (1)
Transparency in Global Change: The Vanguard of the Open Society. By Burkart Holzner and Leslie Holzner. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Pp. 408. $34.95 (paper). (2008) (1)
Contemporary sociological theory / George Ritzer (1992) (1)
Roundtable Discussion: Considering the "Magical" Wolrd of Consumption (2005) (1)
Vagabonds and Tourists (2012) (1)
A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. By Lizabeth Cohen. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. 567. $32.50. (2004) (1)
Review Essay: Not Consumed Enough (2008) (1)
The inhospitable hospitality industry. (2004) (1)
Multi-Dimensional Sociology.By Adam Podgórecki and Maria Lós. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 344 pp. $25.00 (1981) (1)
Religious ideas, feelings and their interrelationship. Research into the effects of religious education in parables on 10- to 12-year-olds (2008) (1)
Book Review: Revolutionizing the World of Consumption (2002) (1)
Contemporary social theorists (2011) (1)
REFLECTIONS ON THE PARADIGMATIC STATUS OF SOCIOLOGY (1978) (1)
Dealing with the New Means of Consumption (1998) (1)
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations. (1991) (1)
Social Problems: Values and Interests in Conflict.@@@Social Problems: Arena of Conflict. (1976) (1)
A Brief History of Neoliberalism. By David Harvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. 247. (2007) (1)
Collins Does Metatheory (Again!): and He's (Pretty) Good at it (1989) (1)
Issues, Debates and Controversies: An Introduction to Sociology (1980) (1)
McDonaldization in the age of COVID-19 (2020) (1)
Globalists vs. Skeptics (2012) (0)
Food and Drink, The declining importance of cultural context (2013) (0)
Down to Earth Sociology.@@@Issues, Debates, and Controversies.@@@Readings in Introductory Sociology.@@@Understanding American Society. (1973) (0)
End of History: The Views of Francis Fukuyama (2012) (0)
The study of social problems (1992) (0)
Editor's Note (2006) (0)
Globalization and Consumption (2015) (0)
Metamanagement and the Outsourcing of Domestic Life (2009) (0)
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations.Edited by Joseph Berger, Morris Zelditch, Jr., and Bo Anderson. Sage, 1989. 416 pp. $39.95 (1991) (0)
Reenchantment: Creating Spectacle Through Extravaganzas and Simulations (2010) (0)
A Tour of the New Means of Consumption (2010) (0)
A Metatheoretical Analysis of Socioeconomics (1990) (0)
Title of Thesis: WOMEN AS PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS IN 1950s AMERICA: AN ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL HYSTERESIS Elizabeth Kathleen Thorn, Master of Arts, 2006 (2006) (0)
Dinosaurs of Consumption (2012) (0)
The Cathedrals (and Landscapes) of Consumption: Continuity and Change (2010) (0)
Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants and Increasing Rationalization (1998) (0)
The increasing centrality of prosumption in the digital capitalist economy (2020) (0)
Book Review: Personnel: The Personnel Manager: A Study in the Sociology of Work and Employment (1979) (0)
Reenchantment: Creating Spectacle Through Implosion, Time, and Space (2010) (0)
Rationalization, Enchantment, and Disenchantment (2010) (0)
Classical social theorists (2011) (0)
Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (review) (2011) (0)
Intergenerational mobility : Methods of analysis (2007) (0)
Society in Action: The Theory of Social Becoming.By Piotr Sztompka. University of Chicago Press, 1991. 211 pp. Cloth, $35.00 (1994) (0)
The Declining Importance of Cultural Context (2012) (0)
Some Concluding Thoughts on the McDonaldization Thesis (1998) (0)
Zee, Th. van der (2007). Religious ideas, feelings and their interrelationship. Research into the effects of religious education in parables on 10- to 12-year-olds. Berlin: LIT Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8258-0530-2 (2008) (0)
Credit Cards and the Globalization of Nothing (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
The “New” Prosumer: Collaboration on the Digital and Material “New Means of Prosumption” (2013) (0)
The increasing centrality of prosumption in the digital capitalist economy (2020) (0)
3 The Frame of Paradigm (2005) (0)
Nothing (and Something) (2018) (0)
The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists: Ritzer/Blackwell (2008) (0)
Socioeconomics In Tune, but Out of Touch, with Recent Sociological Theory (1990) (0)
Jobless Recovery or Ever-More Joblessness? (2015) (0)
Münch(ing) on McDonald(ization) of social theory (1996) (0)
Provisioning and Consumption (2006) (0)
Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory.By Bary Hindess. Unwin Hyman, 1988. 132 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $12.95 (1990) (0)
ROBERTSON’S AND RITZER’S CONCEPTIONS OF GLOBALIZATION (2018) (0)
The Revolution in Consumption and the Larger Society (2010) (0)
Choice, Rationality, and Social Theory. (1990) (0)
OCCUPATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY: THE ORGANIZATION DOMINATED MAN? By Mayer N. Zald. Chicago: Markham, 1971. 108 pp (1974) (0)
Beyond McDonaldization : A conversation (2017) (0)
Social Theory and the New Means of Consumption (2010) (0)
Visions of the Sociological Tradition.By Donald N. Levine. University of Chicago Press, 1995. 365 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $15.95 (1996) (0)
Jack Goldstone: Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2004) (0)
Work in Non-Market and Transitional Societies@@@Work in Market and Industrial Societies (1986) (0)
Introduction: McDonaldization and Beyond (1998) (0)
Sociology and the Twilight of Man: Homocentrism and Discourse in Sociological Theory.By Charles C. Lemert. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. 260 pp. $17.50 (1979) (0)
Sociological Theory George Ritzer 8th Edition (2021) (0)
A “New” Global Age, but Are There New Perspectives on It? (2007) (0)
BECOMING A DENTIST. By Basil J. Sherlock and Richard T. Morris (with a chapter by Wayne Plasek). Springfield, Illinois: Thomas, 1972. 138 pp. $9.25 (1973) (0)
Mobile Lives (2012) (0)
From production and consumption to prosumption (2017) (0)
Talcott Parsons’Marshall Lectures: Contemporay, But Flawed (1991) (0)
Applying the Principles of McDonaldization to Medicine--Reply. (2016) (0)
McDonaldization: The New “American Menace” (1998) (0)
I Never Metatheory I Didn't Like (1991) (0)
Ethical and Moral Arguments. Insights into a Validation Study of the ETiK-Test (2020) (0)
Classical sociological theory / George Ritzer (1992) (0)
Obscene from any angle (2000) (0)
HONORING EDWARD TIRYAKIAN AS A METASOCIOLOGIST:: A METACONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF PROSUMPTION AND RELATED CONCEPTS (2016) (0)
The State of Sociology: An Evaluation of Current Assessments@@@Towards a Critical Sociology: An Essay on Commonsense.@@@Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies.@@@Sociology in the Balance: A Critical Essay.@@@The Normative Structure of Sociology: Conservative and Emancipatory Themes in So (1978) (0)
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology” Prosumers (2012) (0)

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