institutionalizationn.

1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. iii. 49 This order is brought about by the systematization, or institutionalization, of social activities so that certain persons have certain roles in them and so that the activities have certain functions in the general social life.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. vi. 85 The traditional [mental] hospital was run rather like a prison: inmates were treated as if they were incapable of taking an active or responsible place in the community, and it has been found that the longer they have been inside the more they suffer from ‘institutionalization’— i.e. they become apathetic..and become quite dependent on the hospital.

1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 21 If we confront problems of social development, we cannot rest content with their institutionalization in one minuscule town.

1969 H. Perkin Key Profession i. 2 The universities are..the institutionalization of innovation in the arts.

1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 234 The alternative is not the institutionalization of parental functions.

1972 Physics Bull. Aug. 445/2 The institutionalization of science has brought it, and particularly its r and d aspects, decisively into the realm of government and politics.