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Aaron Ahuvia and Elif Izberk-Bilgin. "Limits of the McDonaldization Thesis: eBayization and Ascendant Trends in Post-Industrial Consumer Culture." Consumption, Markets & Culture, 14(4): 361-384.

Alan Bryman.  "The Disneyization of Society."  Sociological Review, 47(1999):25-47.

Alan Bryman.  The Disneyization of Society.  London, UK: Sage, 2004.

Barry Smart.  Resisting McDonaldization.  London, UK: Sage, 1999.

Benjamin Barber.  Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy.  New York: Ballentine, 1996.

Cameron MacDonald and Marek Korczynski, eds. Service Work:  Critical Perspectives.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

David Fasenfest.  "The Glocal Crisis and the Politics of Change."  Critical Sociology 36(2010):363-368.

Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard, eds.  The McDonaldization of Higher Education. 

Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

Donna Dustin.  The McDonaldization of Social Work.  Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2008.

Eric Schlosser.  Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food.  Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Eric Schlosser.  Fast Food Nation.  Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

George Ritzer and Seth Ovadia.  "The Process of McDonaldization is Not Uniform, nor Are Its Settings, Consumers, or the Consumption of Its Goods and Services" in Mark Gottdiener, ed., New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Cultures and Commodification.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 33-49.

George Ritzer.  "Revolutionizing the World of Consumption."  Journal of Consumer Culture, 2 (2002):103-118.

George Ritzer. The Globalization of Nothing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

George Stauth and Bryan S. Turner.  "Nostalgia, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Mass Culture." Theory, Culture and Society, 5(1988):509-526.

James Watson.  Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia.  2d ed. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Jeffrey Pilcher.  Food in World History.  London, UK: Routledge, 2005.

Joe L. Kinchelow.  The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2002.

John William Drane, After McDonaldization: Mission, Ministry, and Christian Discipleship in an Age of Uncertainty.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Baker Academic, 2008.

John William Drane.  The McDonaldization of the Church.  London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 2001.

John William Drane.  The McDonaldization of the Church: Consumer Culture and the Church's Future.  Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, 2008.

Lee F.  Monaghan.  "McDonaldizing Men's Bodies?  Sliming, Associated (Ir)Rationalities and Resistances."  Body & Society 13(2007):67-93.

Lee F.  Monaghan.  Men and the War on Obesity: A Sociological Study.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

Marek Korczynski and Ursula Ott.  2006. "The Menu in Society: Mediating Structures of Power and Enchanting Myths of Individual Sovereignty."  Sociology 40(2006):911-928.

Mark Alfino, John Caputo, and Robin Wynyard, eds. McDonaldization Revisited.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

Mark Patterson.  Consumption and Everyday Life.  New York: Routledge, 2005.

Max Weber.  Economy and Society.  Totowa, NJ: Bedminster, 1921/1968.

Morgan Spurlock.  Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. 

Morton G. Enger.  American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?  New York: Routledge, 2009.

Robin Leidner.  Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life. 

Berkeley, CA:  University of California Press, 1993.

Stephen Halebsky.  Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores.  Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books, 2009.  

Stephen Kalberg.  "Max Weber's Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History."  American Journal of Sociology, 85 (1980):1145-1179.

Stephen M. Fjellman.  Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.

Thomas L. Friedman.  The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. 

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

Thomas L. Friedman.  The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century.  New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2005.

Uri Ram.  "Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local McDonald's in Israel." Current Sociology 52 (2004):11-31.

Volker Kirchberg.  "Cultural Consumption Analysis: Beyond Structure and Agency."  Cultural Sociology 1(2007):115-135.

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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.  My Years at General Motors.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.

Barry Smart.  Postmodernity.  London, UK: Routledge, 1993.

Bruce A. Lohof.  "Hamburger Stand Industrialization and the Fast-Food Phenomenon."  In Marshall Fishwick, ed., Ronald Revisited: The World of Ronald McDonald.  Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Press, 1983.

Carole Counihan and Penny van Esterik.  Food and Culture: A Reader.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

Chen-Bo Zhong and Sanford E. DeVoe.  "You Are How You Eat: Fast Food and Impatience."  Psychological Science 21(2010):619-622.

David Chalcraft.  Max Weber Matters: Interweaving Past and Present.  Farmham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2008.

David Kushner. Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb. New York: Walker Publishing Company, 2009.

Eric Abrahmanson and Charles Fombrum.  "Forging the Iron Cage: Interorganizational Networks and the Production of Macro-Culture."  Journal of Management Studies 29(2010):175-194.

Evelyn Cobley.  2009. Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency.  Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Frederick W. Taylor.  The Principles of Scientific Management.  New York: Harper & Row, 1947.

Fredric Jameson.  Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

George Martell.  Education's Iron Cage: And Its Dismantling in the New Global Order.  Toronto, Canada: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

George Ritzer and Terri LeMoyne.  "Hyperrationality: An Extension of Weberian and NeoWeberian Theory."  In George Ritzer, ed., Metatheorizing in Sociology.  Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1991, pp. 93-115.

George Ritzer.  Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption.  3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2009.

George Ritzer.  Postmodern Social Theory.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Harvey Greisman.  "Disenchantment of the World."  British Journal of Sociology, 27(1976):497-506.

Henry Ford.  My Life and Work.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1922.

Herbert Gans.  The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community.  New York: Pantheon, 1967.

Jean Baudrillard.  Symbolic Exchange and Death.  London: Sage, 1976/1993.

Jean-Francois Lyotard.  The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Jerry Newman.  My Secret Life on the McJob.  NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Joe Kincheloe.  "The Complex Politics of McDonald's and the New Childhood: Colonizing Kidworld."  In Gaile S. Cannella and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Kidworld: Childhood Studies, Global Perspectives, and Education.  New York: Peter Lang, 2002, pp. 75-112.

John Vidal.  McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial.  New York: New Press, 1997.

Leonidas K. Cheliotis. "How Iron is the Iron Cage of New Penology?: The Role of Human Agency in the Implementation of Criminal Justice Policy."  Punishment Society 8(2006):313-340.

Lizabeth Cohen.  A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Marc-Oliver Schuster. H.C. Artmann's Structuralist Imagination: A Semiotic Study of his Aesthetic and Postmodernity. Wurzberg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2010.

Mark H. Moss.  Shopping as an Entertainment Experience.  Lexington, MA:  Lexington, 2007.

Max Weber.  Economy and Society.  Totowa, NJ: Bedminster, 1921/1968.

Naveed Yazdani, Hasan Murad and Rana Zamin Abbas. "From Modernity to Postmodernity: A Historical Discourse on Western Civilization." International Journal of Business & Social Science 2(2011): 249-256.

Pierre Bourdieu.  Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Ray Kroc.  Grinding It Out.  New York: Berkeley Medallion Books, 1977.

Robert Kanigel.  One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency.  New York: Viking, 1997.

Ronald Takaki.  Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Royston Greenwood and Thomas B. Lawrence.  "The Iron Cage in the Information Age: The Legacy and Relevance of Max Weber for Organization Studies."  Organization Studies 26(2006):387-392.

Sam Whimster and Scott Lash.  eds. Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity.  London, UK: Routledge, 2008.

Steven Best and Douglas Kellner.  Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations.  New York: Guilford, 1991.

Thomas S. Dicke.  Franchising in America: The Development of a Business Method, 1840-1980.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch, and Knuth Dohse.  Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Zygmunt Bauman.  Modernity and the Holocaust.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

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Adam Weaver.  "The McDonaldization Thesis and Cruise Tourism."  Annals of Tourism Research 32(2005):346-366.

Andy Pike.  "Geographies of Brands and Branding."  Progress in Human Geography 33(2009):619-645.

Barry Glassner.  The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat.  New York:  Harper Perennial, 2007.

Barry Smart.  Resisting McDonaldization.  London, UK: Sage, 1999.

Barry Smart. The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity. London, UK: Sage, 2005.

Carlo Petrini.  Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair.  New York: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2007.

Chen-Bo Zhong and Sanford E. DeVoe.  "You Are How You Eat: Fast Food and Impatience."  Psychological Science 21(2010):619-622.

Craig J. Thompson and Gokcen Coskuner-Balli.  "Enchanting Ethnical Consumerism: The Case of Community Supported Agriculture."  Journal of Consumer Culture 7(2007):275-303.

Daniel Thomas Cook.  "The Missing Child in Consumption Theory."  Journal of Consumer Culture 8(2008):219-243.

Detlev Zwick, Samuel K. Bonsu, and Aron Darmody.  "Putting Consumers to Work: 'Co-Creation' and New Marketing Govern-Mentality."  Journal of Consumer Culture 8(2008):163-196.

Donalid Winiecki.  "Subjectification in Call Center Work."  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 36(2007):351-377.

Eric Holt-Giminez and Raj Patel.  Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice.  Oakland, CA: First Food Books, 2009.

George Ritzer and David Walczak.  "The Changing Nature of American Medicine." Journal of American Culture 9(1987):43-51.

George Ritzer and Nathan Jurgenson.  "Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital 'Prosumer'.  Journal of Consumer Culture 10(2010):13-36.

George Ritzer and Seth Ovadia. "The Process of McDonaldization is Not Uniform, Nor Are Its Settings, Consumers, or the Consumption of Its Goods and Services" in Mark Gottdiener, ed., New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Cultures and Commodification.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 33-49.

George Ritzer.  "Revolutionizing the World of Consumption."  Journal of Consumer Culture 2 (2002):103-118.

George Ritzer.  Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1995.

George Stauth and Bryan S. Turner.  "Nostalgia, Postmodernism, and the Critique of Mass Culture." Theory, Culture and Society 5(1988):509-526.

Herbert Simon.  Administrative Behavior 2d ed.  New York: Free Press, 1957.

James B. Twitchell.  Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Jennifer Smith Maguire.  Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

John Germov and Lauren Williams.  A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite.  Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Joshua I. Newman and Michael D. Giardina.  "'NASCAR' and the 'Southernization' of America: Spectatorship Subjectivity, and the Confederation of Identity."  Cultural Studies ó Critical Methodologies 8(2008):479-506.

Joshua I. Newman.  "A Detour Through 'NASCAR Nation': Ethnographic Articulations of a Neoliberal Sporting Spectacle."  International Review for the Sociology of Sport 42(2007):289-308.

Karla Erickson.  The Hungry Cowboy: Service and Community in a Neighborhood Restaurant.  Oxford, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. 

Laura O'Toole.  "McDonald's at the Gym: A Tale of Two Curves®.  Qualitative Sociology 32(2009):75-91.

Mark Alfino, John Caputo, and Robin Wynyard, eds. McDonaldization Revisited.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

Marshall Fishwick, ed. Ronald Revisited: The World of Ronald McDonald.  Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Press, 1983.

Max Boas and Steve Chain.  Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's.  New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976.

Max Weber.  Economy and Society.  Totowa, NJ: Bedminster, 1921/1968.

Miriam Salzer-Morling and Lars Stannegard.  "Ain't Misbehavin' Consumption in a Moralized Brandscape."  Marketing Theory 7(2007):407-425.

Nico Stehr.  Moral Markets: How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumerism and Products.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007.

Nikolaos Taosanidis and Myrofora Antoniadou.  "Quality Assurance: Enhancing or Threatening Higher Education."  Industry & Higher Education 24(2010):87-93.

Ray Kroc.  Grinding It Out.  New York: Berkeley Medallion Books, 1977.

Robin Leidner.  Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

Sam Marullo.  Ending the Cold War at Home: From Militarism to a More Peaceful World Order.  Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1993.

Shoshana Zuboff.  In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power.  New York: Basic Books, 1988.

Stephen Kalberg.  "Max Weber's Types of Rationality: Cornerstones for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History."  American Journal of Sociology 85 (1980):1145-1179.

Stephen M. Fjellman.  Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. 

Uri Ram.  "Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local McDonald's in Israel." Current Sociology 52(2004):11-31.

William Severini Kowinski.  The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise.  New York: William Morrow, 1985.

Yasemin Besen.  "Exploitation or Fun?"  The Lived Experience of Teenage Employment in Suburban America."  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(2006):319-340.

Yiannis Gabriel and Tim Lang. "New Faces and New Masks of Today's Consumer."  Journal of Consumer Culture 8(2008):321-340.

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Andrew T. Roach and Jennifer L. Frank.  "Large-Scale Assessment, Rationality, and Scientific Management: The Case of'No Child Left Behind'."  Journal of Applied School Psychology 23(2007):7-25.

Annette Baran and Reuben Pannor.  Lethal Secrets: The Shocking Consequences and Unresolved Problems of Artificial Insemination.  New York: Warner, 1989.

Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck.  "Marketing Sex: U.S. Legal Brothels and Late Capitalist Consumption."  Sexualities 40(2006):911-928.

Beth Montemurro.  "Toward Sociology of Reality Television."  Sociology Compass 2(2007):84-106.

Brian Jarvis.  "Monsters Inc.: Serial Killers and Consumer Culture."  Crime Media Culture 22(2007):119-128.

Chris Rojek.  "Sports Celebrity and the Civilizing Process."  Sport in Society 9(2006):674-690.

Craig A. Cunningham.  "Transforming Schooling through Technology: 21st Century Approaches to Participatory Learning."  Education and Culture 25(2009):46-61.

Denis Walsh.  "Childbirth Embodiment: Problematic Aspects of Current Understandings."  Sociology of Health and Illness 32(2009):486-501.

Derek Humphry.  Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying.  3rd ed.  New York: Delta, 2002.

Derek Humphry.  The Good Euthanasia Guide: Where, What, and Who in Choices in Dying. Junction City, OR: Norris Lane Press, 2008.

George Ritzer and Craig Lair.  "Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond."  In George Ritzer, The Blackwell Companion to Globalization.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2007.

Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin.  America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies.  Singapore: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Jean-Anne Sutherland and Kathryn M. Feltey, eds. Cinematic Sociology.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2009.

Jennifer L. Croissant.  "The New Sexual Technobody: Viagra in the Hyperreal World."  Sexualities 9(2006):351-377.

Jennifer Smith Maguire.  Fit for Consumption: Sociology and the Business of Fitness.  New York: Routledge, 2008.

John Urry.  The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies.  London, UK: Sage, 1990.

Laura Grindstaff and Joseph Turow.  "Video Cultures: Television Sociology in the 'New TV' Age."  Annual Review of Sociology 32(2006):103-125.

Lenore Tiefer.  "The Medicalization of Impotence: Normalizing Phallocentrism." Gender and Society, 8(1994):363-377.

Markella Rutherford and Selina Gallo-Cruz.  "Selling the Ideal Birth: Rationalization and Re-enchantment in the Marketing of Maternity Care."  In Barbara Katz Rothman, ed. Patients, Consumers, and Civil Society.  Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2008, pp. 75-98.

Mary Gatta, Heather Boushey, and Eileen Appelbaum.  "High-Touch and Here-to-Stay: Future Skills Demands in US Low Wage Service Occupations."  Sociology 43(2009):968-989.

Peter Conrad.  The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Rajinder Dudrah.  Bollywood Goes to the Movies.  Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006.

Raymond Kurzweil.  The Age of Intelligent Machines.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Robert Bohm.  "McJustice: On the McDonaldization of Criminal Justice."  Justice Quarterly 23(2006):127-146.

Rose Weitz and Deborah Sullivan.  "Licensed Lay Midwifery and the Medical Model of Childbirth."  Sociology of Health and Illness 7(2008):36-54.

Rose Weitz.  The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Perspective.  Boston: Wadsworth Cengage, 2010.

Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather Dillaway.  "Medicalization, Natural Childbirth, and Birthing Experiences."  Sociology Compass 3(2009):31-48.

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Al Gore.  An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. NY: Rodale Press, 2006.

Anthony Flint.  This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America.  Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Barry Glassner.  The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More.  New York: Basic Books, 2010.

Bruce Johansen. The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future. London: Praeger, 2003.

David Thomas Cook.  "The Missing Child in Consumption Theory."  Journal of Consumer Culture 8(2008):219-243.

Dino Numerato. "Revisiting Weber's concept of Disenchantment: An Example of the Re-enchantment with Sailing in the Post-Communist Czech Republic."  Sociology 42(2009)439-456.

Hannah Cooke and Susan Philpin.  Sociology for Nursing and Healthcare.  Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, 2008.

Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds.  From Max Weber.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1958.

Jean Baudrillard.  Symbolic Exchange and Death.  London, UK: Sage, 1976/1993.

John Boli and Michael A. Elliott.  "Façade Diversity: The Individualization of Cultural Difference."  International Sociology 23(2008):540-560.

Mark A. Schneider.  Culture and Enchantment.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Michael Fine.  "Individualization, Risk, and the Body: Sociology and Care."  Journal of Sociology 41(2005):247-266.

Minna Aslama and Mervi Pantti.  "Talking Alone: Reality TV, Emotions and Authenticity."  European Journal of Cultural Studies 9(2006):167-184.

Paul Hewer and Kathy Hamilton.  "On Emotions and Salsa: Some Thoughts on Dancing to Rethink Consumers."  Journal of Consumer Behaviour 9(2010):113-125.

Philippe Aries.  The Hour of Our Death.  New York: Knopf, 1981.

Ray Oldenburg.  The Great Good Place.  New York: Paragon, 1987.

Reid Ewing, Ross Brownson, and David Berrigan.  "Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Weight of United States Youth."  American Journal of Preventative Medicine 31(2006):464-474.

Robert Henson. The Rough Guide to Climate Change: The Symptoms, The Science, The Solutions. 3rd Edition.  London: Rough Guides Ltd, 2011.

Thad Williamson.  Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Tim Recuber.  "Immersion Cinema: The Rationalization and Reenchantment of Cinematic Space."  Space and Culture 10(2007):315-330.

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Al Norman.  Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart: How You Can Stop Superstore Sprawl in Your Hometown.  Saint Johnsbury, VT: Raphel Marketing, 1999.

Al Norman.  The Case Against Wal-Mart.  Saint Johnsbury, VT: Raphel Marketing., 2004.

Barbara Kingsolver. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Barry Smart.  Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences.  London, UK: Sage, 2010.

Barry Smart.  Resisting McDonaldization.  London, UK: Sage, 1999.

Carlo Patrini and Alice Waters.  Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair.  New York: Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2007.

Carlo Petrini. Slow Food Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasure of Food. VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001.

Charles Fishman. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works – And How It's Transforming the American Economy.  New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

Chris Rojek.  The Labour of Leisure: The Culture of Free Time.  London, UK: Sage, 2009.

Chris Rojek.  Ways of Escape: Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel.  London: Routledge, 1993.

Corby Kummer.  The Pleasures of Slow Food.  San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.

Elizabeth Tehle Peters and Ellen Kirby.  Community Gardening.  Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2008.

James Miller.  The Passion of Michel Foucault.  New York: Anchor, 1993.

Neil Postman.  Technopoly.  New York: Knopf, 1992.

Stanley Cohen and Laurie Taylor.  Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Everyday Life, 2d ed. London, UK: Routledge, 1992.

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman.  In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies.  New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Wanda Urbanska.  The Heart of Simple Living: 7 Paths To a Better Life.  Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2010.

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Alan Bryman. "Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization."  In George Ritzer, ed. McDonaldization: The Reader, 2d ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2007, pp. 319-323.

Allison Cavanagh.  Sociology in the Age of the Internet.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Aminu Mamman and Nabil Baydoun, and Kui Liu. "Exploring the Meanings of Globalization in Beijing."  Global Business Review 10(2009):67-86.

Benjamin Barber.  Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole.  NY: W.W. Norton, 2007.

Bryant Simon.  Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America From Starbucks.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009.

Celia Pearce.  "The Truth About Baby Boomer Gamers: A Study of Over-Forty Computer Game Players."  Games and Culture 3(2008):142-174.

Charles Fishman.  The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - And How It's Transforming the American Economy.  NY: Penguin Books, 2006.

Christian Fuchs.  "Social Software and Web 2.0: Their Sociological Foundations and Dan Laughey.  "User Authority Through Mediated Interaction: A Case of eBay-in-Use."  Journal of Consumer Culture 10(2010):105-128.

David Beer and Roger Burrows.  "Consumption, Prosumption, and Participatory Web Cultures."  Journal of Consumer Culture 10(2010):3-12.

David Bosshart.  Cheap: The Real Cost of the Global Trends for Bargains, Discounts, and Customer Choice.  London, UK: Kogan Page, 2006.

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