Outdoor education in Ireland, as many countries, takes place a variety of physical locations ranging from urban to wilder, minimally human influenced environments. Irish public outdoor providers have traditionally placed little emphasis on cultural understandings the places where learning occurs. Moreover, commonly demonstrates characteristics McDonaldized experience opposed place-based experie...

Moderniteye bir başkaldırı olarak ortaya çıkan postmodernizmin, toplumsal hayatın hemen her alanına etkide bulunduğu, değiştirdiği ve dönüştürdüğü ifade edilmektedir. Bu değişim dönüşümden sanat, edebiyat, mimari, müzik vb. alanlar daha fazla oranda etkilenmektedir. Buna bağlı dünya postmodern anlayış doğrultusunda yeniden şekillendirilmekte buna uygun yeni tarzlar çıkmaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra ...

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 ...

■ Abstract Since the late 1980s, language endangerment and death have been discussed as if the phenomena had no connection at all with language birth. More recently the phenomena have been associated almost exclusively with the intense and pervasive economic globalization of same period, a process that some authors have reduced too easily to the McDonaldization phenomenon. Moreover, the relatio...

This paper specifies the relationships between the trend of Disneyization and the increasingly efficient, scientific, costly, and control-oriented systems of American criminal justice. Disneyization is the process by which the principles of the Disney theme parks are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world. It is related to the concurrent ph...

Journal of Futures Studies, August 2004, 9(1): 45 58 For better or worse, humanity is now becoming a unitary whole in an important and unprecedented way. Many names have been given to this process; and because names create realities, it matters very much which one we use. Some, beginning with the sociologist Harold Innes and his student Marshall McLuhan, see it as a movement toward a global vil...