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Commodification vs Commoditization - What's the difference?

commodification | commoditization |

As nouns the difference between commodification and commoditization

is that commodification is the assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless while commoditization is the transformation of something into a commodity.

commodification

English

Noun

(wikipedia commodification)
  • The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless.
  • *2006 Ross Haenfler - Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change
  • *:Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodifcation.

    • commoditization

    English

    Alternative forms

    *commoditisation

    Noun

    (-)
  • The transformation of something into a commodity
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Henry Sheehan, Class Encounters, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Having established this ultimate, farcical commoditization of heroism, Robbins turns his attention to Carlos. }}