Chapter Outline

I. Classical Theorists on Modernity

II. The Juggernaut of Modernity

A. Biographical Sketch: Anthony Giddens

B. Modernity and its Consequences

C. Modernity and Identity

D. Modernity and Intimacy

III. The Risk Society

A. Creating the Risks

B. Coping with Risks

IV. McDonaldization and the New Means of Consumption

A. McDonaldization

B. The New Means of Consumption

1. Efficiency

2. Calculability

3. Predictability

4. Control through Nonhuman Rather than Human Technology

V. Modernity and the Holocaust

A. A Product of Modernity

B. The Role of Bureaucracy

C. The Holocaust and McDonaldization

VI. Modernity's Unfinished Project

A. Biographical Sketch: Jurgen Habermas

B. Habermas versus Postmodernists

VII. Informationalism and the Network Society

VIII. Globalization Theory

A. Kellner's Neo-Marxian Perspective on Globalization

B. Giddens on the "Runaway World" of Globalization

C. Beck and the Politics of Globalization

D. Bauman and the Human Consequences of Globalization

E. Ritzer on the "Globalization of Nothing"

F. Appadurai's "Landscapes"

IX. Summary