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Title: The Globalization of Nothing by George Ritzer ISBN: 0-7619-8807-6 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ritzer's Best, by far
Comment: This is a thoughtful, rich, critical, engaging analysis. I was pleasantly surprised. I had major problems with his famous McDonalization of Society -- I thought it was pretty thin, extremely redundant, and gave short-shrift to the profit motive. Furthermore, Ritzer kept re-packing the same ideas in various publications. I was jealous of all the money he was making, but not impressed in terms of scholarly innovation. When I saw this book, I thought: oh, no, here we go again: slick title, slick cover....another money maker for Ritzer and shallow analysis for us. WRONG. Even picking this book up with enormous skepticism, I was totally engaged. This is great stuff. He not only explains his observations carefully, but his analysis of WHY the trend under scrunity is happening is solid. And he gives credit where credit is due -- to Marx, in this case. Good for Ritzer.
Ritzer's argument is that products, places, and services that are locally constructed, locally controlled, and full of distinct and special qualities are vanishing. What are proliferating and ever-increasing are products, places, and services that are centrally constructed, centrally controlled, and lacking distinct or special qualities. But he goes beyond this observation and really tries to EXAPLIN it. His critiques of the profit-motive are strong and right on the mark. Sure, there were many things I disagreed with in this book, and things I would take exception to. But ultimately this was solid scholarship, piercing and profound social theory, and a great leap forward for one of sociology's most productive scholars.
Rating: 5
Summary: A philosophical and clarion warning
Comment: The Globalization Of Nothing is an articulate economic thesis by Professor George Ritzer (University of Maryland) that articulately postulates the short and long-term effects of globalization. Claiming that societies worldwide are moving away from "something" (defined as unique and distinctive indigenous social forms), toward the "nothing" (globalized products that are centrally controlled and blandly the same worldwide), The Globalization Of Nothing warns that societies all over the world today are rapidly losing unique customs, local businesses, gathering places, even the hallmark of personal interaction. The Globalization Of Nothing is a philosophical and clarion warning regarding the creeping and homogenizing impersonality of severe economic forces.
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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 Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman ISBN: 0385499345 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: McDonaldization: The Reader by George Ritzer ISBN: 0761987673 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Key Ideas in Sociology by Peter Kivisto ISBN: 080399088X Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Society Under Siege by Zygmunt Bauman ISBN: 0745629857 Publisher: Polity Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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