institutionalized
1
6.5
- adjective
- /ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃənəlaɪzd/
- US
:
institucionalizado
- The changes in policy created an institutionalized framework that all employees were expected to follow.
The problem was, is it institutionalized illegal immigration.
- The problem was, is it institutionalized illegal immigration.
- And that's, that's an institutionalized misogyny.
- Once the city becomes institutionalized a a lot, you can't just, you just can't bribe your way through.
- And so becoming institutionalized in that respect where you can't see things any other way and yourself any other way could could fit into that.
Examples
-
These examples represent some of the more institutionalized or semi-organized forms in which people are searching for and finding alternative answers and spaces to the official state rhetoric and system.
Academic text (2006) -
For the first time in Soviet history, the Congress had made itself an institutionalized forum for civilians to question and supervise military activities.
Academic text (1992) -
The "race" concept has become an institutionalized feature of contemporary legal, occupational, and academic settings.
Academic text (1994) -
Business groups in Colombia have always had a close, often institutionalized relationship with the government.
Academic text (1993) -
To use Douglas Chalmers' terminology, "politicized democracy" differs from the stable, institutionalized democracy of the Anglo-American liberal political tradition.
Academic text (1992) -
Research on the diversity awards program, however, should be conducted to determine if the program brought about actual changes in perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors toward diversity-related issues and if it thus made an impact as an incentive to fulfilling and sustaining the university's cultural shift toward an institutionalized model for diversity.
Academic text (2011) -
Such direct funds are comparatively low when compared with other cases in Latin America, yet in both qualitative and quantitative terms, such funding has been central to adapting civil society activism in Mexico to the context of formal and increasingly institutionalized liberal democracy controlled from above.
Academic text (2012) -
It is a logic driven not by a single faction or a single issue but by a stable and institutionalized system of governance with both authoritarian and democratic features, with domestic constituencies and long-standing international alliances.
Academic text (2009) -
Many schools have institutionalized practices that ensure consistency in their educational approaches.
-
The company's values have been institutionalized, guiding how employees interact with each other and customers.
Synonyms
6
6.7
Strongly fixed and hard to change, often about beliefs or habits
Official after people follow the required steps, for example by signing a contract
Made standard so everyone uses the same rules
How Institutionalized
Surface Forms
Morphology
institutionalized = institutional (transparent) = institution + al + ized
The transformation from 'institutional' to 'institutionalized' is clear, indicating incorporation into a structured system.
Etymology
Institutionalized comes from institution, which means a system, place, or custom 'set up' to do a job, and from in- meaning 'into'. So when something is institutionalized, it has been made part of the system and becomes normal or official.