One of Lukács’ key concepts in analyzing the relationship between art and capitalism was the notion of reification. Reification refers to the process by which social relations between people are ...

Tracy Goodson-Espy, The Roles of Reification and Reflective Abstraction in the Development of Abstract Thought: Transitions from Arithmetic to Algebra, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 36, No.

The only way the working class can break out of this framework is through de-reification, which is essentially a realisation of ‘self-consciousness’ or in other words class consciousness.

Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; it’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become “social media addiction,” how climate ...

Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat (1923) Submitted by libcom on July 25, 2005 ...

Anna Sfard, Liora Linchevski, The Gains and the Pitfalls of Reification: The Case of Algebra, Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 26, No. 2/3, Learning Mathematics: Constructivist and ...

This talk explores how the reification of employee performance in organizations breeds inequality in employee compensation. It reports the findings of a large-scale experiment asking participants to ...