Chapter Outline

I. Neo-Marxian Theory

1. Critical Theory and the Emergence of the Culture Industry
   1. superstructure
   2. base
   3. culture
   4. culture industry
   5. mass culture
   6. one-dimensional society
   7. technocratic thinking
   8. reason
   9. irrationality of rationality
2. Key Concept: Knowledge Industry
3. From Fordism to Post-Fordism
   1. Fordism
   2. Post-Fordism
   3. sneakerization
   4. world-system
   5. core
   6. periphery
   7. McDonaldism
4. Key Concept: The Modern World-System

II. Micro-Macro Analysis: The Civilizing Process

1. Examples of the Civilizing Process
2. Lengthening Dependency Chains
   1. dependency
3. A Case Study: Fox Hunting
   1. figurations
4. Biographical Vignette: Norbert Elias

III. Analyzing Modernity: The Colonization of the Lifeworld

1. Lifeworld, System, Colonization
   1. lifeworld
   2. system
   3. colonization of the lifeworld
2. Rationalization of System and Lifeworld
3. Biographical Vignette: Jurgen Habermas

IV. Analyzing Modernity: The Juggernaut of Modernity and the Risk Society

1. The Juggernaut
2. B. Space and Time
   1. distanciation
3. Reflexivity
4. Insecurity and Risks
5. Biographical Vignette: Anthony Giddens

V. Analyzing Modernity: The McDonaldization of Society

1. Dimensions of McDonaldization
   1. efficiency
   2. calculability
   3. predictability
   4. control
   5. irrationality of rationality
2. Biographical Vignette: George Ritzer
3. Expansionism
4. Key Concept: Globalization
   1. globalization
   2. glocalization

VI. Summary

VII. Suggested Readings