The Five Pillars of Essentialism
Reification and the Social Construction of an Objective Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2412430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-76 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-9755 • E-ISSN: 1749-9763 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1749975515616905 |
| OpenAlex | W2273560401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 17 |
Drawing on Berger and Luckmann's discussion of reification, this paper examines the five aspects of essentialism that make the social construction of a seemingly objective reality possible. The five aspects are religion (as typically manifested in the idea of 'God'), science (as typically manifested in the idea of 'Nature'), reason (as typically manifested in the notion of 'Logic'), universalism (as typically manifested in the notion of 'Everybody'), and eternalism (as typically manifested in the notion of 'Always'). They constitute the foundations of the process of making the merely intersubjective and conventional seem objective and inevitable
Epistemology · Essentialism · Political science · Positivism · Social constructionism · Social constructivism · Social reality · Sociology · Universalism · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |