decommodification

Decommodification - people should not let money get in the way of having an experience.

He found that he was able to class welfare states into three types, based on their level of decommodification.

But, since the building of the decommodification index is limited, these typology could be also criticized.

Decommodification as a concept comes from the idea that in a market economy, individual persons (and their labor) are commodified.

In the Italian unemployment insurance system all the measures are income-related, and they have an average decommodification level.

More on decommodification of information can be found at this World Social Forum page.

Decommodification - rejection of corporate advertising, branding and sales of any kind.

In general, unemployment, sickness insurance and pensions are used to measure decommodification for comparisons of the welfare state.

Features of the event are subject to the participants and include community, artwork, absurdity, decommodification and revelry.

Decommodification is the process of viewing utilities as an entitlement, rather than as a commodity that must be paid or traded for.

He further theorized from this that decommodification was based on a combination of class coalitions and mobilization, and regime legacy.

He noticed there was a difference in types of social welfare systems, and compared them based on their level of decommodification of social welfare goods.

Hence, the decommodification potential of state benefits is assumed to be low and social stratification high (Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser 2011).

FIGMENT is based on 11 principles including participation, inclusion, decommodification and leave no trace.

An example of decommodification would be the removal of tolls from a toll road or the internet before becoming mostly supported by private ISPs.

Decommodification-"In order to preserve the spirit of gifting, our community seeks to create social environments that are unmediated by commercial sponsorships, transactions, or advertising.

Since the LLC forbids any commerce, participants must be prepared and bring all their own supplies with the exception of the items stated in Decommodification.

Here, Esping-Andersen is using comparative research: he takes many western countries and compares their level of decommodification, then develops a theory of the divergence based on his findings.

Decommodification of Labor Theory (DLT) is a criminological theory that focuses on the intersection of homicide and the free-market capitalist system.

DLT argues that decommodification of labor lowers economic dominance and reduces "anomic pressure" (i.e. loss of values/morals) resulting in a reduction of antisocial behavior.

Transformus celebrates the principles of radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation and immediacy.

Based on the decommodification index Esping-Andersen divided into the following regimes 18 OECD countries (Esping-Andersen 1990: 71):

Christian-democratic welfare states are based on the principle of subsidiarity and the dominance of social insurance schemes, offering a medium level of decommodification and a high degree of social stratification.

In his piece the "German Dual System," Theodor Lewis argues that during this process a 'decommodification' occurs, where a commodity changes from being the "norm" to holding a personal value, often cultural.

According to French sociologist, Georges Menahem, Esping-Andersen's "decommodification index" aggregates both qualitative and quantitative variables for "sets of dimensions" which fluid, and pertain to three very different areas.