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commodification|kəmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. commodity: see -fication.]
The action of turning something into, or treating something as, a (mere) commodity; commercialization of an activity, etc., that is not by nature commercial.
1975Fox I. i. 5/2 We might begin to inquire whether the retreat from the objectification, commodification and institutionalization of traditional art models..[is] the instinctive recoil against that which they represent. 1977Rev. (Fernand Braudel Centre) Fall 125 The continuing process of ‘development’ of the world-economy has demonstrated..that more than land and labor was subject to commodification. 1980N. Abercrombie et al. Dominant Ideology Thesis v. 150 The crucial fact about working-class integration that emerges from this account is the boys' acceptance of the commodification of labour. 1981Dance Scope XV. iii. 14 These are only the manifestations of what I have called the commodification of dance, that is the packaging, promotion, presentation and institutionalization of movement and choreographers. 1983L. R. Lippard Overlay 6 Others [sc. artists] have made conscious attempts over the last decade to combat the relentless commodification of their products and to reenter the ‘outside world’. 1984Nature 2 Aug. 438/3 In..The Man Who Knew Too Much, Alfred Hitchcock guessed that the ‘commodification’ of health care was one of the nastier secrets in American medicine. |