mcdonaldization
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The process by which institutions in society become standardized and focused on efficiency and predictability.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Almost all social institutions (for example, education, sports, politics, and religion) were adapting McDonald's principles to their operations. And McDonaldization was spreading around the world—fast-food croissanteries in Paris (of all places), Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing, McDonald’s in Beijing and Moscow."
Etymology
Etymology tree English McDonald English -'s English McDonald's Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English McDonaldization From McDonald's + -ization. Popularized by the American sociologist George Ritzer in his book The McDonaldization of Society (1993), based on an essay of the same title he published in 1983.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ization