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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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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.

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