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commodification 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. Commodification (or commoditization) is the transformation of goods and services (or things that may not normally be regarded as goods or services) into a commodity.
  2. The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless
  3. (commodify) To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value
  4. (Commodify) from 'commodity', to make something subject to market forces.  Generally used pejoratively, as when Marxists claim that capitalism has commodified labor, or when Feminists claim that prostitution, pornography or paid surrogacy commodify women's bodies.
  5. 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 (HumaneMyth.org).
  6. The process by which an object or person becomes a commodity. Capitalist society, which is structured around economic exchange, is seen by many critics to commodify the whole world.
  7. 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
  8. Commodification is the commercialization of an object or activity that is not inherently commercial [1].  The human body, especially women’s bodies, are frequently commodified in the media in order to sell products.  Think about the links between viewing people as products and health. ...
  9. A Marxist concept that describes all things in a society (even people) as commodities. All material and social phenomena are products of a society and contribute to the production of other components in that society. ...
  10. The trend of standardizing business processes, IT Services and application services enabling businesses to intelligently buy at the right price. Allows a wide range of businesses access to services previously only available to large corporations.
  11. The transformation of non-commercial relationships into commercial relationships, p504.
  12. Derived predominantly from the work of anthropologist Dick Hebdige, this describes process by which a culture’s symbols, artefacts and identity is absorbed and reconstructed by the process of market exchange and popularisation. ...
  13. the subordination of public and private realms to the logic of capitalism.  In other words, to say certain things (e.g., friendship, women) have become "commodified" is to say they are now valued primarily for their commercial value. ...
  14. process through which something is given monetary value (e.g., bottled water).
  15. Rendering any artifact, action, object, or idea into something that can be bought or sold. A belief that all entities have (or should) have a material value and be judged on that basis. Ultimately, anything that can be exchanged for sale in a market is a commodity.