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Professionalization vs Specialization - What's the difference?

professionalization | specialization |

As nouns the difference between professionalization and specialization

is that professionalization is the act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional while specialization is the process of specializing.

professionalization

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.
  • *2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 64:
  • *:Their relative success formalized the idea of law enforcement for payment, and helped accelerate the professionalization of policing.

    • specialization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * specialisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of specializing.
  • * 1973', , ' Time Enough For Love
    • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    Antonyms

    * generalization * abstraction American English forms