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Shuvadip Das posted an Question
December 12, 2020 • 16:07 pm 30 points
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What is 'Reification' ? How does Lucas explain / define the term?

What is 'Reification' ? How does Lucas explain the term?

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    Deb dulal halder Halder best-answer

    for example Dickens uses "hands" for industrial workers as their labour is counted in terms of hands and not as individuals. the labourers are commodified and this in simple terms is reification

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    Deb dulal halder Halder Best Answer

    Reification is a process which affects four dimensions of social relations: the socially created features of objects (primarily their features as commodities), the relations between persons, their relations to themselves and, finally, the relations between individuals and society as a whole. The objective and subjective dimensions of the dominance of the commodity form constitute a complex of reification because the properties of objects, subjects and social relations become “thing like” in a particular way. These properties become independent, quantifiable, non-relational features that must remain alien to any subjective meaning that one could attach to them. Additionally, by losing grip of the qualitative dimensions of their social relations, people become atomized and isolated.

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