Lecture 9+10

Question 1

George Ritzer 1995

Answer 1

• Founded Mcdonaldization from weber point of view of democracy
• Bureaucratic system and increase rationalization stifle agency and dehumanizes us (Iran cage)
• Creates it hard to escape from societies rules
• Different from Marx argue, Marx argues that it is possible to move away from being stuck

Question 2

What is Mcdonilization

Answer 2

• Assembly line production
• Online learning is very effective for the university
• Advantages
  a. Mass amount of structure makes it easier for students through process
  b. Technology?
• Disadvantages
  a. Homogenization
  b. Dehumanization
  c. Technology?

Question 3

4 main points of Mcdonilization

Answer 3

1. Efficiency – Fastest way to get from one part to another
2. Calculability – Emphasize the qualitative aspect of products sold
   a. Calculations of time
   b. Grade point averages
3. Predictability
   a. Professors
   b. Class structure
4. Control – Exerted over who enters McDonalds
   a. Set averages
   b. Modules
   c. Teaching process

Question 4

Education is failing our students

Answer 4

• The entire principle of education is mass producing students (standardization)
• Good little capitalist students
• Mass produce better workers towards a capitalist society

Question 5

Revolutions

Answer 5

• Agriculture
• Industrial – mass education and production
• Technology (1980’s)
• Service (2000’s)

Question 6

Society Revolutionized

Answer 6

• Technology increase
• News has changed
• Anyone can learn what they want from anywhere
• Mass education = Behind
• Do not see individuals as unique

Question 7

Education Reform

Answer 7

• Reforms = solutions within
  a. More funding
  b. More teachers pay
  c. Changing school day
• Engagement in the classroom declining
• Standardized testing
• Students spend 10+ years of life bored
  a. Creates less creative individuals

Question 8

This is a problem because of MASS education

Answer 8

• Standardizing students
  a. No freedom
  b. Strict schedule
  c. Information you don’t need in life
  d. Strip individuals of their individuality

Question 9

Solutions to education being mass production

Answer 9

• European style
• Socialist countries
• Hands on learning
• De democratized

Question 10

Student centered learning

Answer 10

• Democratise classroom
• Partnership with the educator and student
• Personalized – meet students where they are
• Gold standard
  a. Accessibility
• Technology / online learning
  a. Messy reality

Question 11

Result of Student Center Learning

Answer 11

• Busyness
• Constant worry for low stakes
• Underestimating students
• Dishonest Students
• Profs = obsolete = less respect
• Graduation = more important than learning

Question 12

Ontology

Answer 12

Branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality

Question 13

Nominalism

Answer 13

View that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. Reality is socially constructed.

Question 14

Realism

Answer 14

The viewpoint which accords to things which are known or perceived an existence or nature which is independent of whether anyone is thinking about or perceiving them.

Question 15

Epistemology

Answer 15

the branch of philosophy that studies knowledge or knowing. It is the knowledge to examine reality

Question 16

Western land

Answer 16

Chippewa of the Thames First Nation (part of the Anishinaabe); Oneida Nation of the Thames (part of the Haudenosaunee); and, Munsee-Delaware Nation (part of the Leni-Lunaape).