in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize
Pronunciation: \-shnə-ˌlīz, -shə-nə-ˌlīz\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): in·sti·tu·tion·al·ized; in·sti·tu·tion·al·iz·ing
Date: 1865
1 : to make into an institution : give character of an institution to {institutionalized housing}; especially : to incorporate into a structured and often highly formalized system {institutionalized values}
2 : to put in the care of an institution {institutionalize alcoholics}
The next time some Foucauldian grad student starts trying to tell you how the West has institutionalized insanity, tell him that he's using the word in the wrong sense.
7 comments:
Or is it insanitized institutions?
Is systemic, ah sweayerz.
which word?
What is that, Western Psych?
@The Promiscuous Reader: I know! What sense of "institutionalize"? Which referent of "insanity"?
Institutions are people!
the boys of Suicidal Tendencies want me to remind you: it doesn't matter, the insurance money is about to run out anyway.
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