Sociology / Unit 4 Soc 0469 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Institutionalization
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The idea
Institutionalization is the stage at which a habitualized pattern becomes embedded in a society as an expected, enforced arrangement.
In practice
What began as a customary check-in becomes written policy, with consequences for missing it.
Where people slip
Institutions come to appear natural, which conceals the fact that they were built.
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