Talk:George Ritzer

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Verification of Information

Hello everyone, Does anyone know where to verify the quote: “As with several of Ritzer's other principal works, many are translated into languages as diverse as Chinese, Russian, Persian, Hebrew and Portuguese”?

I have found that his texts have been translated to several languages on his faculty page for the University of Maryland but I have not found anything specific in regard to languages.

The same goes with the information that Ritzer has written a certain number of scholarly journal articles. Where is this information?

Does anyone have an idea?

Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hclili (talk • contribs) 22:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disappearing First Source

Hello everyone, The first reference cited contains a broken link. I have the link that is not broken: https://www.ailun.it/so/st/docenti/ritzer.shtml. However, I cannot seem to replace the link as when I go to the editing view, the reference completely disappears and then reappears with the broken link as soon as the page is out of the editor view. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hclili (talk • contribs) 18:48, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Cannot Verify Quotes

Hello everyone, I cannot seem to access the original sources of references 10 and 40 to verify the quotes that they supposedly include.

The quote of Reference [10] I cannot find the original source. I have found two sources where the quote is used but the website cited no longer is attached to a relevant website:

Costache, Monica. "Qualman, Eric. (2009) Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way we Live and do Business. John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey." *Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology* 1.2 (2010): 225-8. *ProQuest.* Web. 3 Oct. 2023.

https://dokumen.pub/creativity-a-sociological-approach-recurso-electronico-9781137531223-9781137449726-9781137531216-9781349557509-1137531215-1137531223.html

The quote of Reference [40] is supposed to be in this link which I am not able to access: https://sk.sagepub.com/books/the-mcdonaldization-thesis/n9.xml

If anyone can find the original source for the quote related to reference [10] or access to the source of the quote in reference [40], can you please verify that the quotes are in these sources?

Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hclili (talk • contribs) 19:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

This is *not* a place for a complete CV. It is not common to list the "courses taught" or provide comprehensive lists of articles published. "Leadership Roles" is also questionable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.237.201.3 (talk) 10:13, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also: the majority of the references in this article are from Ritzer's own web page. If I understand Wikipedia policy, these are not to be considered reliable, as it's the subject reporting on himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.237.201.3 (talk) 01:04, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, seriously? This article is providing more detail than that of Emile Durkheim. This is inappropriate - while not disputing that Ritzer's work is important, Wikipedia is not the place for a comprehensive bibliography! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.237.201.3 (talk) 00:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have gone through and edited this article for PoV violations and an overly autobiographical tone. Unnecessary information such as future publications and unfounded comments such as "entertainingly cheeky" have been removed to try to bring this article more in line with Wikipedia standards.

Now, question: are Ritzer's theories important enough on their own to need to be given their own pages, or should the summary of his work be left here?

Isn't this taking the current categorization craze a bit toooo far? What do you mean Ritzer is a writer? Well of course, anyone who's ever written a note or filled in a form could be called a "writer", but wouldn't we refer to Ritzer as a sociologist rather than having such an ambiguous term? <KF> 10:50, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah OK

So you don't think much of Ritzer. Lets look at his work a bit more objectivly shall we? -- 11:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

BTW, Ritzor has a new book out. Something about the "Religion of Consumerism". Seek and ye shall find. I gotta run. -- CQ 02:06, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Information about Ritzer

Hi I'm a danish nurse student. I'm trying to locate any information about Ritzer and he's work besides The McDonaldization of the society. Can anybody help find out about his scientific methodes, where he's born. How he grew up ect.

your sincerly Christina Stisser@hotmail.com

About Ritzer

Here are some links that might prove useful and informative about Ritzer.

http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/theories.htm sociological theories of other theorists

http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/ritzer_george.html interview with George Ritzer

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/ritzer_excerpt.html book ecxcerpts from the McDonaldization of Society Merishi 09:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC) In his own books, Ritzer classifies himself among the postmodernist theorists, which means he is resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation in his approach to sociology. To understand Ritzer one may have to first understand some philosophy, such as rationalism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.254.98.25 (talk) 18:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for some specifics...

I've been looking all over the web for sites or books that give information pertaining to Ritzer's life such as major events in his life and so forth. Any help would be greatly appreciated. lcs02@mhc.edu

Nothing at all.

This article could use some information on Rizter's thoughts and theories on 'nothing' in consumer culture. Seems all Ritzer is ever noted for is his thesis on McDonaldization... --Meestah-k 03:12, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing new

There is no need to even consider seperate pages for what Ritzer's purports to be theories. Indeed and fact if we look at these purported theories objectively they basically apply existing theory to contemporary events only with fancy names on them. I good go through the list, but instead will just use the example of McDonaldization. A fast food restuarant did not independently develop this series of faceless efficiency which was generalized to globalization, it was the other way around. If we look at Weber's writings we see this same theme, only there were no fast fod restuarants at the time so Weber used bureaucracies. McDonalds simply applied Weber's bureaucracy theory to its business model and Ritzer renamed the theory. Personally I find Ritzer's writing somewhat entertaining, but still, renaming an exisiting theory, or applying and exisiting theory to a contemporary circumstance is the creativity of a writer, not the domain of a sociological theorist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.47.135.131 (talk) 19:47, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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