The Globalization of Nothing
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George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland where he has also been a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and won a Teaching Excellence Award. He was awarded the 2000 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association. In addition to The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 1996, 2000; translated into a dozen languages), he is the author of more than twenty books, including Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995), Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption (1999), and The Globalization of Nothing (forthcoming). He is also a founding editor (with Don Slater) of the Journal of Consumer Culture. Among his forthcoming works are the Handbook of International Social Problems and the two-volume Encyclopedia of Social Theory. The Globalization of Nothing
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