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. |
Moreover, it is important not to idealize and reify traditional culture. |
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. |
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. |
In fact, it is quite difficult to reify silence, to freeze it into any one non-living thing. |
There is a natural tendency to reify countries and to think of them as unitary and homogeneous. |