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George Ritzer is an American sociologist, professor, and author who studies globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern and postmodern social theory. His most notable contribution to date is his concept of McDonaldization, which draws upon Max Weber's idea of rationalization through the lens of the fast food industry. In addition to creating his own theories, Ritzer has also written many general sociology books, including Introduction to Sociology as well as Essentials to Sociology , and modern and postmodern social theory textbooks. He coined the term “McDonaldization”. Currently, Ritzer is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. October 1940
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Famous George Ritzer Quotes

“One cannot understand globalization, and many of its problems, without understanding neo-liberalism.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 5, Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Marxian Alternatives, p. 110

“Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 5, Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Marxian Alternatives, p. 136

“If states themselves are less able to handle various responsibilities, this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of some form of global governance to fill the void.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 6, Global Political Structures and Processes, p. 157

“While the US was hegemonic in the era of geopolitics, it is greatly weakened as globalization competes with, and gains ascendancy over, geopolitics.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 6, Global Political Structures and Processes, p. 149

“The polar view, as it was for Marx, is that it was not material factors, but rather ideal factors, that are the main drivers of globalization.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 2, Global Issues, Debates, and Controversies, p. 47

George Ritzer Quotes

“It is increasingly difficult to find examples of warfare that are unaffected by globalization.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 13, Negative Global Flows: Crime, Terrorism, War, and More, p. 390

“It is also often argued that neo-liberalism, especially neo-liberal economics, helps those in the advantaged categories and hurts, often badly, those in the disadvantaged categories.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 436

“Cultural imperialism involved, among many other things, exploration, missionary and humanitarian missions, travel, and the use of education and publishing to disseminate European ideas.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 3, Related Processes I: Imperialism, Colonialism, and More, p. 67

“One important point about the idea that there are multiple globalizations is the fact that it further complicates the whole idea of finding a point of origin for globalization.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 2, Global Issues, Debates, and Controversies, p. 47

“It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 6, Global Political Structures and Processes, p. 148

“Marx's insight of a century-and-a-half ago was not only highly prescient, but is far truer today than in Marx's day.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 1, Global Liquids, Flows, and Structures, p. 6

“Globalization reinforces preexisting gender structures, barriers, and relationships, only now on a global scale.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 15, Global Inequalities II: Global Majority-Minority Relations, p. 455

“In the end, the key point is that in gaining a better understanding of these processes, we gain a more nuanced and sophisticated sense of the fundamental nature of globalization.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 3, Related Processes I: Imperialism, Colonialism, and More, p. 80

“Globalization can also be seen as flow of "nothing" (as opposed to "something"), involving the spread of non-places, non-things, non-people and non-services.”

Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 9, Global Culture and Cultural Flows, p. 275

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