reification
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This type of rhetoric of reification is always defended by the bromide that this is how "tyrannies of a minority" rather than "tyrannies of a majority" are supposed to work.
From Salon
Everything is rated according to its monetary value and turned into an object of consumption — nothing appears to escape its regressive spiral of commodification, social atomization, and reification.
From Salon
It wasn’t silly, either; hope springs eternal from the human breast, and what’s a market if not the reification of people’s hopes and desires?
From The Verge
The third strategy of division you discuss is reification — in this case, meaning treating people like objects.
From Salon
The reification of science into practical, problem-solving medicines and technologies drives economies and lifts up humanity.
From Nature
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