instrumentalization

Examples

• All

• The last line of resistance to the instrumentalization of reason thus lies in language itself

  Academic text (1998)

• Online teaching need not be complicit with the instrumentalization of education.

  Academic text (2017)

• I denounce the instrumentalization of these women

  Academic text (2006)

• Instead, it was the instrumentalization of citizenship for machine voting and the corruption surrounding it that was the focus of reforms.

  Academic text (2001)

• A high level of press autonomy is demonstrated by a marked public service orientation and low levels of political instrumentalization (i.e., control of media by outside actors).

  Academic text (2013)

• The universalized "never again" command, and with it the instrumentalization of memory for political purposes, have become a veil covering ongoing atrocities in our present world.

  Academic text (2008)

• Secondly, Arendt shows that the modern rise of the social, and the instrumentalization of existence that accompanies it, imposes a number of constraints on free action.

  Academic text (2003)

• What concerns me is the instrumentalization of the event by politicians and the media.

• Many educators worry about the instrumentalization of students as mere data points in assessments.

• The instrumentalization of personal relationships for business gain can undermine trust and loyalty.

Synonyms

M

manipulation

vsinstrumentalization

120 5.5

Getting someone to do what you want to help yourself using clever or dishonest actions

treats someone as a tool to reach a goal rather than valuing them

P

parasitization

vsinstrumentalization

1 8.5

Using people or things for your own benefit without giving anything back

may use someone as a means even when some exchange or return exists

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology