communalization

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noun

The act or process of communalizing (any sense).

Scrabble 30

Meanings

nouncommunalization (countable and uncountable, plural communalizations)

plural communalizations

  1. countableuncountableThe act or process of communalizing (any sense).

    The more 'real' communalization is realized, the more decision-making competence the communes have on how to fulfil the tasks.

    2008, Brian Dollery, Lorenzo Robotti, The Theory and Practice of Local Government Reform, page 168
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    So it is possible for Cohen to answer Gray's objections to the communalization of property by rejecting the very notion of collective unfreedom that he has employed elsewhere.

    1999, Ian Carter, A Measure of Freedom, page 265

    The communalization of social relationships, on the other hand, occurs when social behavior is based on a sense of solidarity, that is, on the emotional or traditional attachments of those involved.

    2003, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, page 1476

    In Israel, communalization provides every religious group (Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze) with its own personal status laws administered by religious authorities (Swirski 2000), whereas in India, communalization applies only to minorities, not the Hindu majority.

    2004, Lynn Welchman, Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform, page 257

    Concerning individual factors at the start of communalization, these were quite disparate, since the Ericsson employees had no experience of Matrix, and the consultant from the vendor had no experience of Ericsson.

    2021, Nik Rushdi Hassan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Advancing Information Systems Theories: Rationale and Processes, page 421

    Our results indicate a consistent positive relationship between the level of development of the stricken community and the predicted probability of communalization, and a negative relationship between development of the stricken community and the predicted probability of othering.

    2022, Thomas Jamieson, Douglas A Van Belle, That Could Be Us, page 72

Origin

Translations

Spanish comunalización
  • comunalizaciónTranslations
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