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ERIC Number: EJ620641
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Challenges to the Common Good in the Age of Globalism.
Barber, Benjamin R.
Social Education, v64 n1 p8-13 Jan-Feb 2000
Explains that the challenge for the next millennium is preserving and securing the common good against the forces associated with globalization. Discusses globalization in detail, the privatization of public power, the commercialization of what is privatized, and the infantilization and homogeneity of consumers. (CMK)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Children, Consumer Economics, Private Sector, Privatization, Public Sector, Secondary Education, Social Change, Social Environment, Social Influences, Social Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Commercialism; Globalization