SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Homeostasis, Mcdonaldization, Georg Simmel
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Questions on reading: rs #33, ritzer, the mcdonald"s system : as mentioned in the passage, we live in a rationalized world. However, we cannot ever go back to an nonrationalized world because our population is always increasing, our acceleration in technology changes, and our pace of life increases. What are we left with then if we cannot return to rationality and we"re afraid to move forward and spawn irrationalities a. In my opinion, we are just left with irrationalities and left to deal with them. That is usually what society does, although we would not like to admit it, we just look at the problem or blemish in society and accept that as the new normal . It is because we keep constantly desiring more power, innovation, money, whatever! Causing us to keep working, destroying that world, creating non-stop change for our society.
