MEANING
1. The process by which different parts or features become the same or increasingly similar.
2. The treatment of milk that disperses its fat evenly so that a separate cream layer does not form.
Use it for
describing the loss of differences between cultural practices; analyzing standardization across institutions; distinguishing increasing similarity from simple globalizationDescribes movement toward uniformity, not merely increased contact or connection between groups. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend.
Words that belong together
- cultural homogenization
- linguistic homogenization
- the homogenization of practices
On the page
The essay questions whether global media necessarily produce cultural homogenization.
Uniform assessment rules encouraged the homogenization of teaching practices across schools.
The methods section distinguishes milk homogenization from pasteurization.
Homogenization changes the distribution of fat rather than removing all fat from the milk.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- homogenization
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. British homogenisation is a spelling variant; no separate entry. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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