[1] Ritzer highlighted four primary components of McDonaldization: With these four principles of the fast food industry, a strategy which is rational within a narrow scope can lead to outcomes that are harmful or irrational.
Efforts are related to focusing on quality instead of quantity, enjoying the unpredictability of service and product and employing more skilled workers without any outside control.
Another example could be McUniversities, which features modularized curricula, delivering degrees in a fast-track pick-and-mix fashion to satisfy all tastes.
Offenders are classified by security level and sent to facilities deemed capable of adequately incapacitating prisoners in their risk category.
Slater[8] argues that the class size, layout and pedagogy in Peru closely resemble that of America, with clear examples of Western culture focused on efficiency of transfer of knowledge in other parts of the world.
It is predicted by George Ritzer[11] that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) will make future education even more McDonaldized.
Yet since MOOCs limit the amount of contact between student and teacher, it will be difficult to engage the course on a deeper and more meaningful level.