This thinker drew on the work of Baudrillard and DeBord to analyze the way implosions of time and space create spectacles in a book about modern "cathedrals of consumption," Enchanting a Disenchanted World. This thinker defined the desire of nations and organizations "to impose themselves on various geographic areas" as "grobalization." Along with Don Slater, this social scientist founded the Journal of Consumer Culture, and this author of the seminal textbook Sociological Theory described the expansion of "nonplaces" like shopping malls and casinos, as well as "nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices," in The Globalization of Nothing. This sociologist updated Weber's 
This thinker drew on the work of Baudrillard and DeBord to analyze the way implosions of time and space create spectacles in a book about modern "cathedrals of consumption," Enchanting a Disenchanted World. This thinker defined the desire of nations and organizations "to impose themselves on various geographic areas" as "grobalization." Along with Don Slater, this social scientist founded the Journal of Consumer Culture, and this author of the seminal textbook Sociological Theory described the expansion of "nonplaces" like shopping malls and casinos, as well as "nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices," in The Globalization of Nothing. This sociologist updated Weber's theory of rationalization to describe how the forces of "Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Increased Control, and the Replacement of Human by Non-human Technology" increasingly make aspects of modern life resemble a ? fast-food chain. For 10 points, name this American sociologist, the author of The McDonaldization of Society.
This thinker drew on the work of Baudrillard and DeBord to analyze the way implosions of time and space create spectacles in a book about modern "cathedrals of consumption," Enchanting a Disenchanted World.
George {Ritzer}