MEANING
1. The process by which a practice or rule becomes an established part of an organization or society.
2. The act of placing someone in a residential institution for care, supervision, or treatment.
3. The process of becoming dependent on institutional routines and less able to live independently outside them.
Use it for
describing a temporary practice becoming routine; explaining how norms acquire organizational support; tracing the formal embedding of a reformDistinguishes the embedding of practices in organizations from residential placement and dependence created by institutional life. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- the institutionalization of a practice
- the institutionalization of inequality
- institutionalization within an organization
On the page
The institutionalization of public consultation outlasted the original reform coalition.
The chapter traces the institutionalization of exclusion through routine administrative rules.
The review compares long-term institutionalization with community-based support.
The records reveal how poverty could increase the risk of institutionalization.
The study examines whether prolonged institutionalization reduced opportunities for independent decision-making.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- institutionalization
Usage notes
Usually uncountable. Institutionalizations can name distinct processes or placements. British institutionalisation is the same canonical word. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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