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- It is a representational practice which functions to establish the self-evident reality of the concept in question, treating it as if it has the ontological status of a specific physical thing in an objective material world.
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Jul 19, 2024 · By examining the mechanisms and effects of reification, sociologists can uncover the ways in which power and inequality are maintained. This introduction to reification will explore its historical development, processes, implications, and ways to overcome it.
May 27, 2020 · This project clarifies the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification through analytical descriptions of reificatory modes of experience in social context.
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Oct 21, 2024 · It is a representational practice which functions to establish the self-evident reality of the concept in question, treating it as if it has the ontological status of a specific physical thing in an objective material world.
Reification, in the context of social theory, is the process of transforming human properties, relations, processes, actions, and concepts into tangible things. It can be used to critique the hypostasis of concepts, the naturalization of the subject and the life-world, and the ideological justification of the status quo.
Reification minimizes the range of reflection and choice, automatizes conduct in the socially prescribed channels and fixates the taken-forgranted perception of the world. Reification in this way comes close to being a functional imperative.
Reification and dereification describe different types of social prac- tice, individual technical practices aimed at adaptation, survival, and success, and collective transforming practices with the potential for establishing a solidary socialist society.
Mar 26, 2015 · The concept of reification (Verdinglichung) is a central category of critical social theory. In the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, from Marx via Lukács to the Frankfurt School, it is used to...
