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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of routinize.

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Examples

  • According to his sociology of the individual as political fetish, the modern state routinizes gender inequalities through a "workaday" bureaucracy located in the mundane structural demands of economic activity; in the civic arena created by official bureaucracy, patriarchal social patterns formalize commercial relations and enforce the domination of a perceived "natural leader" in the home, the marketplace, and the sphere of civic activity.

    Notes on 'Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott' 2006

  • Standardizes and routinizes the management of labor so that birth is more predictable and convenient for health providers in hospitals.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Tradition adjusts that inspiration to the ordinary, universal motives of man, such as greed and vanity; it routinizes the charisma.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Reason transmits, routinizes, normalizes; it does not create.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Tradition adjusts that inspiration to the ordinary, universal motives of man, such as greed and vanity; it routinizes the charisma.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Reason transmits, routinizes, normalizes; it does not create.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

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