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Sociologists from several perspectives have critically addressed reification. In general, reification refers to the act (or its result) of attributing to analytic or abstract concepts a material reality – it is a misplaced concreteness. Through reification people regard human relations, actions, and ideas as independent of themselves, sometimes governing them. The abstraction “society” is frequently reified into something that has the power to act. Society does not act – people do. Reification is an error of attribution; it is corrected by eliminating the hypostatization of abstractions into things or agents.
Title: Reification
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Sociologists from several perspectives have critically addressed reification.
In general, reification refers to the act (or its result) of attributing to analytic or abstract concepts a material reality – it is a misplaced concreteness.
Through reification people regard human relations, actions, and ideas as independent of themselves, sometimes governing them.
The abstraction “society” is frequently reified into something that has the power to act.
Society does not act – people do.
Reification is an error of attribution; it is corrected by eliminating the hypostatization of abstractions into things or agents.
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