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Title: Enchanting a Disenchanted World : Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption by George Ritzer ISBN: 0-7619-8511-5 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 25 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thoughtful and perceptive
Comment: This book changed the way I view my own habits of consumption. I found his analysis of contemporary trends in consumption interesting and provocative. Also interesting was his conclusion that as people grow accustomed to the new means of consumption that they have to be continually impressed by something new. I thought his remarks on the architecture of the "cathedrals of consumption" were also very important. The most unsettling aspect of the book was Ritzer's comparison of modern styles of consumption with religious institutions, and even the conformity of religious institutions to this new means of consumption (i.e., the mega-churches of today). It was a good read, too, not too dense or pretentious. Very engaging.
Rating: 1
Summary: please do not buy this book
Comment: this has to be the most superficial and simplistic account on the new means of consumption; i.e., malls, theme parks, casinos, etc. it is hardly believable that ritzer takes in a seriuos manner his naive arguments, that in several occasions turn into pure idle talk, or worst pure stupidity. just to give one example, when he mentions that malls have their roots in the ancient greek and roman markets. although he states that his work is heavely influenced by the writtings of baudrillard he never explains in his matter why we consume in the first place. even worse, he never gives a concrete argumentation of why this world is disenchanted in the first place and why it has to be enchanted. so please do not make the same mistake that i did and do not buy this book. it is the first time that i have read something by this author but i think i had enough of him for the rest of my life. i might be a joy-killer to use the term of ritzer to describe an anthropologist but i least i am not as simplistic and stupid as he is.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, yet hypocritial
Comment: Well, he even talks Amazon.com as a cathedral of consumption, and brings up such facts as doing what I am doing, reviewing books on amazon.com. I found it to be hypocritical for him to badmouth consumption so much, yet he profits from the things he badmouths, such as my purchase of his book at amazon.com He claims most are subject to consumption. Well, unless you go around naked, live in a cafe and eat sticks, everyone is. This book serves as a valuable tool to look into the methods of consumption that rule our daily lives, but don't get too caught up it how bad it is, consumption feeds the author and his family also.
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Title: The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer ISBN: 0761986286 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: The Discovery of Society by Randall Collins, Michael Makowsky ISBN: 0070118833 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $46.55 |
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Title: Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics by George Ritzer ISBN: 007234962X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 22 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $42.60 |
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Title: The Consumer Society Reader by Juliet Schor, Douglas B. Holt, Douglas Holt ISBN: 1565845986 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Lead Us Into Temptation by James B. Twitchell ISBN: 0231115199 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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