The Globalization of Nothing 2

by George Ritzer

The Globalization of Nothing is back in a revised and completely updated Second Edition . In this reconceptualized volume, author George Ritzer focuses his attention squarely on the processes of globalization and how they relate to McDonaldization. This revision is shorter, more concise, and spends much less space on the Nothing-Something continuum that he introduced in the First Edition .

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He has named at Distinguished-Scholar Teacher at Maryland and received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. Among his academic awards are an Honorary Doctorate from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Honorary Patron, University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin; and the 2012-2013 Robin William Lectureship from the Eastern Sociological Society. He has chaired four Sections of the American Sociological Association- Theoretical Sociology, Organizations and Occupations, first Chair of Global and Transnational Sociology, and the History of Sociology.
His books have been translated into over twenty languages, with over a dozen translations of The McDonaldization of Society alone.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 1 out of 5]

Taking IR theory from a sociological perspective is an interesting concept but this author does a terrible job with this book. He attempts to discredit every other academic field in trying to prove his point, and makes poor points in his discussions of globalization. He also coins his own terms (from his other writing) such as grobalization, and is just wrong about many topics of globalization. It is a book where he makes up his terms, ideas and arguments to fit his theory of globalization rather than basing his ideas on established data, ideas and constructs.