the transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into commodities or productsThe Tories, it is argued, are accelerating a vile commodification of education.

1968, from commodity + -fication. Originally in Marxist political theory, "the assignment of a market value," often to some quality or material the user of the word feels would be better wit [..]

The exchange of goods and services that were once given through primary group ties through the market economy.

Tendency to turn goods and services, even land and labor, into products for sale in market; used critically to describe loss of human qualities in capitalist production and exchange

The use of private markets rather than public-sector allocation mechanisms to allocate goods and services. Also termed recommodification and marketization.

The ways in which local cultural forms are being supplanted by mass produced cultural forms. See McDonaldization.

refers to a good or service becoming indistinguishable from similar products.

The action of turning something into or treating something as a mere commodity.

in education, the attempt to turn social practices such as teaching and learning into products or goods, or the treatment of them as such. Instead of teaching being seen as involving dynamic and creat [..]

The social process by which something or someone comes to be regarded and treated as an article of trade or Commerce.

The social process by which something or someone comes to be regarded and treated as an article of trade or commerce.

The conversion of a living being, principle, or natural environment into an "object" that is used, exchanged, or consumed for profit or other desired gain (Human [..]