Bagging your groceries:
1 Week Three Discussion Board YOU must answer all four questions to receive full credit. Chapter three in the Ritzer text deals with efficiency and calculability. From your standpoint . . .
1. Do you mind bagging your groceries? Using the self-scan at IKEA? Getting your own drinks at McDonalds? Or doing your own banking at an ATM?
2. Is it advantageous to you to do the items listed above?
3. Do you think companies will continue to ask consumers to do more and more of the work or do you think there will be a reversal and they will be required to do less and less?
4. After viewing the Michael Moore clip ,you do not have to agree or disagree with him, who does the McDonaldization process benefit? Click here if for some reason you cannot view the clip with the first link
After absorbing this week’s materials on the topic of religion (including the Power Point ), how do you think religion fosters or inhibits social change? How does the move toward secularization play into this issue? You are to answer these two questions as a student of sociology. Your personal opinion is not being solicited, your objective analysis is!