reification

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.

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.

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?

The third strategy of division you discuss is reification — in this case, meaning treating people like objects.

The reification of science into practical, problem-solving medicines and technologies drives economies and lifts up humanity.