Shaping vs Formation - What's the difference?
shaping | formation |
The action of the verb to shape .
* 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
(psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
Something possessing structure or form.
The act of assembling a group or structure.
(geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
(military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
(military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
As nouns the difference between shaping and formation
is that shaping is the action of the verb to shape while formation is formation.As a verb shaping
is .shaping
English
Noun
(en noun)- In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.