ABSTRACT
George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ritzer was co-founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture with Don Slater. In addition to his considerable work in the area of the sociology of consumption, Ritzer is especially known for Metatheorizing in sociology (1991), The McDonaldization of society (1993), The globalization of nothing (2004), and a truly scandalous number of additional publications in social theory and sociology generally. These interviews were conducted on the 2nd and 30th of May 2006.
