codification

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As representation, sound provides an opportunity for what Freire calls codification, which is a stage in the process of identifying or delineating the terms of a struggle.

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  1. The act or process of reducing to a code or system; especially, in law, the reducing of unwritten or case law to statutory form. Science is but the codification of experience, and it is helpless without the data which experience furnishes. J. Fiske, N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 37. Both those who affirm and those who deny the expediency of codifying the English law, visibly speak of Codification in two different senses. In the first place, they employ the word as synonymous with the conversion of Unwritten into Written Law. Codification is, however, plainly used in another sense, flowing from the association of the word with the great experiment of Justinian, … to give orderly arrangement to this written law—to deliver it from obscurity, uncertainty, and inconsistency—to clear it of irrelevancies and unnecessary repetitions—to reduce its bulk, to popularize its study, and to facilitate its application. Maine, Village Communities, p. 362.

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  • This is a strong argument for constant legislative oversight of statutory implementation and re-codification in light of changed circumstances. —  California Progress Report
  • As representation, sound provides an opportunity for what Freire calls codification, which is a stage in the process of identifying or delineating the terms of a struggle. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • The best-known KM process models are Nonaka's four-step 'knowledge creation' process -- codification, enhancement, internalization, sharing -- and the consultants 'megaprocess model -- acquire, store, add value, apply / deploy. —  How to Save the World
  • Rosalind Nashashibi's films are "concerned with how selfhood mingles with or is dissolved into performance and codification," writes —  GreenCine Daily
  • Intrusive verification which is at the heart of the news arms control regime is a key element of a global order in which state sovereignty is no longer considered to be absolute. the rejection of force for resolving disputes, and the codification of rules of behaviour the growing irrelevance of borders the extent to which security is based on transparency, mutual openness, interdependence and mutual vulnerability
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  1. = French codification; as codify + -ation.
 

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