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Globalized consumer culture

Author(s) -

Fred H. Besthorn

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

the journal of practice teaching in health and social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 1746-6113

pISSN - 1460-6690

DOI - 10.1921/jpts.v5i3.313

Subject(s) - ethos , alienation , happiness , balance (ability) , sociology , public relations , field (mathematics) , environmental ethics , social psychology , psychology , aesthetics , political science , law , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics

Globalised consumer culture and its corresponding ethos that accumulation of material possessions equates to happiness are having a profound impact on the physical, social and emotional health of human beings. For social work practitioners and field educators the issue is how we balance the charge to serve our clients without unwittingly forcing them into a system that is designed by its very nature to increase their dissatisfaction and alienation. This essay discusses these concerns and offers some initial suggestions for how social work may respond.

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