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Rogers Brubaker.
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Randall Collins.
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Arnold Eisen.
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Harvey Greisman.
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Harvey Greisman and George Ritzer.
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Jurgen Habermas.
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Donald Levine.
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Lawrence Scaff.
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Benjamin Barber.
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Benjamin Barber.
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Max Boas and Steve Chain.
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Daniel J. Boorstin.
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Pierre Bourdieu.
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Alan Bryman.
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Alan Bryman.
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Alan Bryman.
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Deborah Cameron.
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Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield, and Meredith Mann.
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Greg Critser.
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Thomas S. Dicke.
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John Drane.
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Charles Fishman.
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Stephen M. Fjellman.
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Thomas L. Friedman.
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Thomas Friedman.
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Herbert J. Gans.
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Barbara Garson.
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Harry L. Gracey.
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Allen Guttmann.
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Jeffrey Hadden and Charles E. Swann.
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David Harvey.
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Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard, eds.
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Kathleen Jamieson.
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Robert Kanigel.
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Jon Krakauer.
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Frank Lechner and John Boli.
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Robin Leidner.
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John F. Love.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard.
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Frank Mankiewicz and Joel Swerdlow.
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Micheli, Joseph A.
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Jessica Mitford.
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Ian I. Mitroff and Warren Bennis.
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Jerry Newman.
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NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007.

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Martin Parker and David Jary.
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Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman.
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Neil Postman.
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Neil Postman.
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Peter Prichard.
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Stanley Joel Reiser.
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Ester Reiter.
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George Ritzer.
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George Ritzer.
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George Ritzer.
The McDonaldization Thesis.
London: Sage, 1998.

George Ritzer, ed.
"McDonaldization: Chicago, America, the World." Special issue.
American Behavioral Scientist, 47(October 2003).

George Ritzer.
Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption. 2nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2005.

George Ritzer, ed.
McDonaldization: The Reader, 2 nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2006.

George Ritzer.
The Globalization of Nothing 2.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge, 2007.

George Ritzer and David Walczak.
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Journal of American Culture, 9(1987):43–51.

Roland Robertson.
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Chris Rojek.
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Eric Schlosser.
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Eric Schlosser.
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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
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Barry Smart, ed.
Resisting McDonaldization.
London: Sage, 1999.

Morgan Spurlock.
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Frederick W. Taylor.
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John Vidal.
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James L. Watson, ed.
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Shoshana Zuboff.
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NEW Additional Suggested Readings

Journal of Consumer Culture, George Ritzer (ed.), Sage.

George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan. 2007.
" Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a "Dead" Theory," In Reconstructing Postmodernism. Jason Powell and Tim Owen (eds.),
New York: Nova Science Publishers.

George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan, and Jeff Stepnisky. 2005.
"Transformations in Consumer Settings: Landscapes and Beyond," In Inside Consumption, R. Ratneshwar & D. Mick (ed.).
New York: Routledge: 292-308.

George Ritzer and Michael Ryan. 2004.
"Americanisation, McDonaldisation, and Globalisation," Issues in Americanisation and Culture, Neil Campbell, Jude Davies, and George McKay (eds.),
Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press: 41-60.

George Ritzer and Michael Ryan. 2003.
"Toward a Richer Understanding of Global Commodification: Glocalization and Grobalization,"
The Hedgehog Review, 5 (2): 66-76

George Ritzer and Michael Ryan. 2003.
"The Globalization of Nothing,"
Social Thought & Research, 25: 51-81.

Ryan, J. Michael. 2007.
"McDonald's: A Modern Paradigm for a Classical Concept," Bestuurskundige Berichten [Public Administrative Messages].
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. May 2007, Pp. 6-7.

Ryan, J. Michael, Daniel Thomas Cook, and Meghan E. Rich (ed.). 2006.
Syllabi and Instructional Resources for Teaching the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption, Second Edition.
Compiled and edited for the American Sociological Association.

Baudrillard, J.
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New York, Semiotext, 1986

Benjamin, W.
The Arcades Project.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1999

Bocock, R.
Consumption.
London: Routledge,1993

Featherstone, M.
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London: Sage, 1991

Ben Fine, B. and E. Leopold
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London: Routledge. 1993

Lears, J.
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Miles, S.
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Slater, Don.
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London: Polity Press

Schor, Juliet.
The Overspent American.
New York: Harper, 1998

Zukin, Sharon.
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture.
New York: 2005

Juliana Mansvelt (2005).
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London: Sage.

Elizabeth Chin (2001).
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Minneapolis: U of Minn. Press.

Mark Gottdiener(2001).
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Barry Schwartz (2004).
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NY: Ecco.

Juliet Schor (2004).
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.
NY: Scribner.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed (Metropolitan Books 2002).

Carl McDaniel and John Gowdy, Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature (University of California 2ooo).

John C. Ryan and Alan Durning, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (Northwest Environment Watch 1997).

Juliet Schor and Douglas Holt, The Consumer Society Reader (New Press 2000).

James Twitchell, Lead Us Into Temptation (Columbia 1999).

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (Dover 1994).

Peter Stearns, Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire, Routledge, 2001.

John Clammer, Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption, Blackwell, 1997.

Joseph J. Tobin, ed.,
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Yale University Press, 1992.

Deborah S. Davis, ed.,
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Christopf Neidhart.
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Lizbeth Cohen.
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Benson, Susan Porter, 1986.
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Chin, Elizabeth. 2001.
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Gregson, Nicky and Crewe, Louise. 2003.
Second-Hand Cultures.
Oxford: Berg.

Handler, Richard and Gable, Eric. 1997.
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Durham: Duke University Press.

Leach, William. 1993.
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New York: Pantheon.

George Ritzer.
Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption.
London: Sage, 2001.

Don Slater.
Consumer Culture and Modernity.
London: Polity Press, 1997.

Karl Marx.
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Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno.
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Walter Benjamin.
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Georg Simmel.
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Georg Simmel.
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Rosalind Williams.
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Jean Baudrillard.
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Michel DeCerteau.
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Gilles Lipovetsky.
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Karen Halnon References

Halnon, Karen Bettez. (2002).
"Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty." Current Sociology.
Journal of the International Sociology Association, July, Vol. 50(4): 501-516. At http://csi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/50/4/501

Her forthcoming (St. Martin's / Worth) book Poor Chic: Poverty Fads, Fashions, and Media in Popular Consumer Culture also contains a chapter entitled "McPoverty." Barry Smart References

Book

Resisting McDonaldization 1999, edited by Barry Smart, 15 chapters discussing different aspects of McDonaldization - Sage, London, pages x + 261.

Papers

'Resisting McDonaldization: Theory, Process and Critique', Barry Smart pp 1-21 in above text. Accounting for anxiety: economic and cultural imperatives transforming university life', pp 43-56, in The McDonaldization of Higher Education, 2002, edited by D Hayes and R Wynyard, London, Bergin and Garvey.