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informalization  

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  • The concept of informalization was coined in 1976 by the Dutch sociologist Cas Wouters. It was developed primarily to understand and interpret the growing leniency in codes of conduct and feeling in Western societies of the 1960s and 1970s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Informalization]

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