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• n  the act of rendering something coarse and unrefined
• n  the act of making something attractive to the general public

• That gives a hint of the kind of upbeat, frantic vulgarization done here by Julian Barry and Tom O'Horgan in another of eight filmed plays mounted by the American Film Theater.
• He degenerates from spiritual voyeur into Peeping Toma transformation reflecting Mishima's own contempt for the vulgarization and materialism of postwar Japan.
• Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, in Christianity and Crisis, declared that the immediate effect of TV would be "a further vulgarization of our culture .

• vulgarisation
• popularization
• popularisation

News & Articles

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• Globe Trotting: Architecture critic William J. R. Curtis...
  Architecture critic William J. R. Curtis warns the Times of India that recent alterations to buildings in Chandigarh, a city in Northern India that was planned by Swiss-French modernist legend Le Corbusier, amount to a "vulgarization" and a "massacring of...
  April 23, 2014 - Curbed

Quotes

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• Peggy Noonan in The Moderate Voice
  *"In the end," Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal, "the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against...
• Hugh Grant in MTV.com
  I did quite want to make that film, but my father put the kibosh on it,Grant said. "He thought it would be a vulgarization of him and the whole Scottish community. The regiments, it was a massive shaming and devastating event. I kept...