Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

bem civilizatório

English translation:

educational/cultural assets/capital

Added to glossary by Verginia Ophof
Mar 15, 2012 23:26
12 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

bem civilizatório

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
No mundo moderno, todos os bens civilizatórios estão vinculados à posse do capital. A universalização do acesso ao conhecimento é a forma mais eficiente de democratizar o acesso aos bens civilizatórios, incluinde saúde, moradia, emprego e renda e todos os demais.

The best I could find was "civilizing asset", but this sounds problematic to me.

Thank you for your help!
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Mar 22, 2012 15:55: Verginia Ophof Created KOG entry

Discussion

Sheryle Oliver Mar 17, 2012:
According to UNESCO, /recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of cultural assets for raising living standards at the same time as preserving cultural heritage and cultural diversity and promoting creativity and entrepreneurship. These include optimizing the development of cultural enterprises as agents of economic growth and national development, in such fields as handicrafts, design, music, print and multimedia publishing, film and television production and heritage tourism./ http://www. portal.unesco.org/.../ev.php-URL_ID=29839&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC...

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educational/cultural assets/capital

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and cultural capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange that includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status.

Peer comment(s):

agree lynnsalt : this sounds more accurate
11 hrs
Thank you Lynnsalt !!
agree Sheryle Oliver : For sure. See UNESCO citation in Discussion Entry.
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Thank you Sheryle !!
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civilizatory goods

although the term sounds a bit strange, it does exist in EN, take a look at this article and also an older question right here on KudoZ

http://miradaglobal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Awareness that we must assume the civilizatory goods of globalization will lead us to dropping attitudes and discourses that are mere opposition. It is true that the domineering direction of this historical figure is determined by the totalitarianism of the market, which reduces the polyphony of life to the circuit of producing and consuming, which tries to turn everything into tradable goods and accelerate the process so that what we produce becomes increasingly disposable. Denouncing this totalitarianism that exploits, excludes, de-humanizes and reduces everything to a unique dimension, must not make us forget the potentialities of the enterprising individual, which cannot be replaced by the State, the benefits of a truly free and competitive market and the strengthening of many civilizatory goods without which human life is no longer possible. We cannot forget criticism, but we must be aware that only by possessing and acting on what is worthy, can we overcome the overwhelming totalitarianism of the market.

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/portuguese_to_english/government_p...
Peer comment(s):

agree Rafael Mondini Bueno : "Bens civilizatórios" sounds really weird coming from a text in social sciences, but anyway, I agree that "civilizatory goods" is an adequate translation.
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Thanks Rafael :)
disagree lynnsalt : While "civilizatory" exists in a Google search, it appears only in translations into english. I can not find it in the dictionary or any reliable source.
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Quite true. But for sure I did not make this word up :) There are some neologisms that have not yet made it to our preferred dictionaries, specially in this globalized world we live in today....all languages acquire new terms from other language so fast..
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civilizing property/civilizing goods

property or goods means all the "rights" that each citizen should have in a democratic society: health, accommodation, education, etc..
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