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institutionalization
institutionalization - the process, as well as the outcome of the process, in which social activities become regularized and routinized as stable, social-structural features. See also INSTITUTION.
- the process, and the resulting condition, in which SOCIAL ACTORS incarcerated for long periods in TOTAL INSTITUTIONS, such as prisons or mental hospitals, become incapable of, or disabled for, independent social life outside the institution.
institutionalization
institutionalization [in″stĭ-too″shun-al″ĭ-za´shun] 1. commitment of a patient to a health care facility for treatment, often psychiatric.2. in patients hospitalized for a long period, the development of excessive dependency on the institution and its routines, with diminishing of the will to function independently.institutionalization (ĭn″stĭ-too″shŭn-ăl-ĭ-zā′shŭn) 1. Residence in or confinement to a nursing home or other long-term care setting for an extended period.2. Arranging for a person to be placed in a health care facility.3. The process in which people who live together gradually develop certain common patterns of behavior and thought (e.g., assumption of illness and depression apathy, behaviors frequently associated with nursing home residency). The current movement in medicine and nursing is away from institutionalism to a more homelike environment. Institutionalization
InstitutionalizationThe gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world.InstitutionalizationA situation in which institutional investors come to provide the vast majority of liquidity in the market, to the point that it is difficult for individual investors to participate. |