Use Weber’s iron cage concept and Ritzer’s model of McDonaldization to assess to what degree TCU is an Iron Cage of Rationality / AKA—A McDonaldized organization. Examine your experience as a student at TCU. Examine a particular aspect of your student experience (selecting and working on a major, registration/advising, the core curriculum, or other aspect). For this dimension of life apply Ritzer’s model (efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control), and rate on a scale from 0 to 10 the extent to which the institution is McDonaldized (each dimension), where 0 represents no emphasis on efficiency whatsoever (or calculability, predictability, or control) and 10 represents total and complete emphasis on efficiency.
After you have presented your case for each of the four characteristics for the dimension of student life, discuss overall to what degree TCU is an Iron Cage of Rationality– that is does TCU’s rationalization produce irrationalities of rationality. If so, how and if not, how does TCU avoid this? Does TCU resist McDonaldization / The Iron Cage.
