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institutionalisation  

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  • When applied to activities, this refers to the process in which social practices become sufficiently popular and continuous to be described as social institutions. When applied to people (such as prisoners and long-stay hospital patients) who inhabit institutions for a long time, it means losing the ability to manage on one's own and becoming dependent on the institution. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Institutionalisation]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-D0C6H2QF-S

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