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institutionalization

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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The routine (while it may be comforting) was the foundation of my institutionalisation, along with the dismantling of my decision making ability.
He said this was a fundamental step towards improving the funding arrangement and ensuring the institutionalisation of a robust, functional, comprehensive, sustainable, effective, and efficient quality assurance system at the SUBEB and LGEA levels.
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'Further to this, we will push for the establishment and institutionalisation of the Nigerian national youth and sports award, which we hope will commence in 2020.
However, is possible to observe tendencies to neglect the issue of the institutionalisation--"the process by which organisations acquire value and stability" (Huntington, 1986: 12)--of political parties as such (More frequently research connects the exploration of political party institutionalisation and the party system institutionalization, without making a clear distinction between these two processes (see Randal, Svasand, 2006: 8; Randall, 2006: 9; Sandbrook, 1996; Markowski, 2001: 56; Randall, 2006: 2).
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