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professionalization

professionalization

1 7.4
A process that makes a job official by adding special training and regular pay
  • noun
  • /prəˌfɛʃənəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
: profesionalización
  • The professionalization of nursing has led to improved standards of patient care.
  • military professionalization
  • professionalization and specialization
  • professionalization of the discipline

Examples

  • But these findings only beg the question about the professionalization of RA service.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The result was a rapid professionalization and bureaucratization of the field.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The findings of this study suggest two possible relationships between professionalization and military coups.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In addition, where does community college teaching fall on a continuum of professionalization?

    Academic text (2008)
  • Wolfire further notes the importance of education in the process of professionalization.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The trend is toward continued professionalization and the exclusion of amateurs.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The restructuring approach to school reform emphasizes the professionalization of teaching and the leadership of teachers in bringing about change.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Three prominent themes were identified by the investigators: career termination, professionalization, and social isolation.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Third, societies show an extraordinary degree of professionalization (which some see as fragmentation) of social life.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Kathleen W. Jones studies the interrelationship of the discovery of "pathological" motherhood and the professionalization of female social workers.

    Academic text (2012)

How Professionalized

regulation
  • Formal
15 4.0
professionalization
  • Specialized
1 7.4
semipro
  • Informal
1 4.4
amateurism
3 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

professionalization = professional (transparent) = profession + al + ization

The noun is a standard process formation from 'professional' plus '-ization', and the meaning follows directly from the base adjective.

Etymology

Professionalization comes from the words profession and professional, which mean a 'job that needs special skill and training'. So, professionalization is the process of making an activity into a recognized, trained, and paid profession.