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MacDonaldization

MacDonaldization is the alternative form of McDonaldization.

Meaning of McDonaldization

Noun

McDonaldization (uncountable)

  1. The process by which institutions in society become standardized and focused on efficiency and predictability.
    • Almost all social institutions (for example, education, sports, politics, and religion) were adapting McDonald's principles to their operations. And McDonaldization was spreading around the world—fast-food croissanteries in Paris (of all places), Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing, McDonald’s in...1996, George Ritzer, “Preface to the First Edition”, in The McDonaldization of Society […] , revised edition, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, →ISBN, page xviii

Noun capitalized: Macdonaldization

Macdonaldization (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of McDonaldization.
    • Thus in the course of the eighties in France and Italy there appeared first individual protests and later on an organized, social-economic countervailing movement against the so-called ‘Macdonaldization’ of food.2005, Wlodzimierz Kaczocha, “Social powers countervailing the globalization of the economy and cultural media”, in T. Buksinski, D. Dobrzanski, editors, Eastern Europe and the challenges of...
    • I'm also intrigued by what some people from Latin America are saying about the Latin American subaltern studies group—they are saying that what this group is doing is making a kind of Macdonaldization of the academy and writing an imperialist discourse about Latin America, without fully realizing...2007 November 1, José David Saldívar, “Session Three”, in Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, editor, The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices, NYU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page...

Questions about MacDonaldization

What is MacDonaldization the alternative form of?
MacDonaldization is the alternative form of McDonaldization.
What part of speech is MacDonaldization?
MacDonaldization is a noun.

Words near MacDonaldization in the dictionary

  1. Macdonald triad
  2. Macdonaldian
  3. MacDonaldism
  4. macdonaldite
  5. MacDonaldites
  6. MacDonaldization
  7. Macdonalds
  8. Macdonalds Creek
  9. Macdonell
  10. MacDonnell
  11. MacDougall

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