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The 15 pages that link to Reification, each with the reason it gives.

• PsychometricsRelated: Psychometric scores can be mistaken for traits themselves rather than fallible measures of theoretical constructs.

• Theodor W. AdornoRelated: Adorno used the concept to examine how social relations appear natural and unchangeable.

• AlienationRelated: It names the broader transformation through which human-made arrangements confront people as natural facts.

• Frankfurt SchoolRelated: The concept helps explain how social arrangements can appear natural and unchangeable.

• Commodity fetishismRelated: It names the broader thing-like appearance that commodity fetishism produces.

• Marxist literary criticismRelated: It offers a way to analyze characters and institutions treated as natural or immutable.

• Critical theoryRelated: It names how historically made institutions can seem objective and unchangeable.

• Cultural essentialismRelated: It makes a changing culture appear to possess a fixed essence of its own.

• DSM-IIIRelated: Critics warn that DSM-III categories can be mistaken for proven natural disease entities.

• Base and superstructureRelated: It describes how historically produced relations can seem independent of their material origins.

• Guy DebordRelated: The spectacle makes social arrangements seem objective and independent of the people who produce them.

• Ethnographic presentRelated: The ethnographic present can reify practices by presenting them as permanent features of a culture.

• Western MarxismBroader topic: Lukács used it to explain how commodity exchange shapes perception and social life.

• György LukácsBroader topic: Lukács made this process central to his account of capitalist society and consciousness.

• Marx's Theory of AlienationRelated: Later Marxist theory uses reification to analyze how alienated social relations seem natural and objective.