reification

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• Definitions:
• To treat as though real that which is just an abstraction or a conceptualization. Sociologists since Durkheim have been accused of reifying ...
• making a topic represent the subject of another topic map construct
• The relationship between Hidden Taxonomy and the Upper Taxonomy is reified by community participation, both in the creation of the Upper Taxonomy and in guidance imposed on hidden processes by active user community feedback. ...
• Reification captures the idea that concepts and ideas may be treated as objectively real things. In social science generally, reification can be seen as a methodological problem because of the tendency to ascribe causation to ideas, as in gender causing inequality. ...
• hypostatization: regarding something abstract as a material thing depersonalization: representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"
• Reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "over-thing-ification") is the consideration of an abstraction or an object as if it had human or living existence and abilities; at the same time it implies the thingification of social relations.

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