(1) Once we have made up categories or concepts, however, it is easy to reify them - that is, it is easy to treat them as real and universal and to forget that we made them up.(2) 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.(3) Others, myself included, have discussed celebrity as a kind of art, providing narratives that reify themes and ideas in the culture much the way myths do.(4) For instance, one can avoid the generic ‘he’ in one's writing but nevertheless, using other words, reify the social categories female and male and the current relationship between them as natural and essential.(5) Our fourth and final point is that it is not clear why market participants should suddenly forget the arbitrary way the conventional judgment is formed once it has been established (and reify the price it supports).(6) Proper gender and class hierarchies are, however, only temporarily suspended in the play's world and restored in the genre's conventionally happy endings that reify English culture as patriarchal and imperial.(7) 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.(8) Normally due to our delusions, we reify things.(9) Eighteenth-century lawmakers, however, had different aims; they wanted to reify hierarchies of race, class, and status.(10) But notwithstanding, reificatory error is common and the system has sustained much criticism on this score.(11) The show, which ended its seven-season run in May, began as a reification of the horrors of high school.(12) That is, the question of Irish or English became a symbolic but reified way of talking about power in language in the abstract sense of the word.(13) Photography by reifying memories invests them with the concreteness they do not necessarily need.(14) The life of the individual would have to take precedence over the reification of the group, and society must decide to get on with the fundamental task of living in a sustainable environment.(15) If we make decisions based on our worst fears, rather than a realistic assessment of their likely reification , we are acting out of panic.(16) The reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation.
