MEANING
The process of treating an apparently obvious idea or practice as something requiring critical examination.
Use it for
questioning a concept treated as self-evident; examining assumptions hidden in an established category; distinguishing critical inquiry from simple acceptanceNames critical examination of something taken for granted, not merely making a practical task harder. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- problematization of a concept
- the problematization of identity
- critical problematization
On the page
The chapter’s problematization of citizenship asks which assumptions are hidden in the category.
Problematization of a method need not imply that the method should be abandoned.
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Usage notes
Normally uncountable. British problematisation is a spelling variant. Register: academic. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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