Explain commodification.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers could explore the following:
? Trading in identity, bodies, and personal or public services crosses a moral
threshold and transforms social relations traditionally regulated by values that
transcend money into exchange relations regulated by money. As part of this
change, leisure, instead of being a haven from alienated wage work, now
becomes like work, an environment of commodity consumption in which
treasured aspects of social relations (based on attachment and commitment
rather than self-interest) and personal identity (based on character rather than
clothes) are lost.
? Ongoing expansions of commercial exchange into all areas of human activity and
“universal markets.”
? The choice between development and conservation of parks and wilderness
(Swinnerton, 1999).
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