{"id":761,"date":"2008-09-16T12:51:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=761"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:23:30","slug":"reification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/16\/reification\/","title":{"rendered":"Reification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subsumption relies on the idea that the very process of explanation is exterior to the explanation itself, an assumption which we have sought to undermine. From a postructuralist point of view, therefore, we can reconceptualize laws, mechanisms, and empirical generalizations, as a function of <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">reification<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, or what we called in Chapter 3, <em>abstract essences<\/em>.\u00a0 The term reification simply signals the effect of bypasssing the contextualized self-interpretations of actors. By contrast, reactivation involves a process of de-reification, in which abstract essences are linked to the contexts and self-interpretations relevant to the problem at hand.\u00a0 Understanding such theoretical concepts and empirical generalizations as a function of degrees of reification or sedimentation, of course, differs substantially from the way mechanisms and laws are usually understood in the literature, namely, as representing differences in <em>subsumptive scope<\/em> (188).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subsumption relies on the idea that the very process of explanation is exterior to the explanation itself, an assumption which we have sought to undermine. From a postructuralist point of view, therefore, we can reconceptualize laws, mechanisms, and empirical generalizations, as a function of reification, or what we called in Chapter 3, abstract essences.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/16\/reification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reification&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logics-of-critical-explanation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11185,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/11185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}