Objectification
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Objectification is the process by which people assign meaning to things, people, places, activities, and the like. Thus they become part of cultural constructions which inform and guide people's behavior.
Objectification also refers to behavior in which one person treats another person as an object and not as a fellow human being with feelings and consciousness of his or her own. In this sense, it is a synonym of reification. The term is used, for instance, in reference to the mass media purported portrayal of women as sex objects.
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See also
- Dehumanization
- Edward Said's Imagined geographies
- Model (art)
- Model (person)
- Nude model
- Sexual objectification
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