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What does reify mean?

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  1. (transitive) to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
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Moreover, it is important not to idealize and reify traditional culture.
I'll discuss our tendency to reify categories after we create them and our tendency to exaggerate the differences between the categories that we create.
They would be forced to consider their own values and the sort of actions necessary to reify those values in the world.
There is a natural tendency to reify countries and to think of them as unitary and homogeneous.
To reify it is a violation of the fundamental respect owed to human dignity.
In the end, accountability groups provide for many of the men a sense of equality with their fellows even as they serve to reify particular types of social hierarchies.

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