Date: Thursday, October 4, 3:30 pmSpeaker: George Ritzer
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland and one of America’s foremost sociologists. His areas of expertise include: social and organizational theory and methods, consumer society, globalization and the credit economy. His 1993 (5th edition, 2008) book The McDonaldization of Society is one of the most widely read social studies of the postwar era and has been translated into 17 languages. It is required reading for undergraduates and graduate students in many colleges and universities. Ritzer is also founding editor, along with Don Slater, of the Journal of Consumer Culture, published by Sage. He has authored or edited numerous textbooks and journal articles, including most recently the 11-volume Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Other notable books include The Globalization of Nothing and Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption. Ritzer earned his PhD in organizational behavior at Cornell. He also holds an MBA from University of Michigan and worked in personnel management at Ford Motor Company before entering academia.
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