商品化专指原本不属于买卖流通和通过货币实行交换的事物，在市场经济条件下已经转化或变异为可以进行买卖和货币等价交换。

商品化让人类的社会生产与分工进一步细化，提高了生产效率，增加了社会总福利。

Commodification is the transformation of goods, services, ideas and not least people into commodities or objects of trade. A commodity at its most basic, according to Arjun Appadurai, is "any thing intended for exchange," or any object of economic value. People are commodified - turned into objects - when working, by selling their labour on the market to an employer. One of its forms is slavery. Others are, the trading with animals and body parts through formalised or informalised organ transplant.