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reification  

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  • Reification is a term generally used to critique consumer culture. It describes the moment when people mistakenly see objects of human creation (everything from ideas, to language, to material objects, to our entire society) as real things or objects. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Reification]

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