Slavery, dowry- indispensable ways . Essential paradox is that sociology should address is that humans are capable of producing a world that he or she then experiences as something other than a human product- reification. Internalization occurs as people are being socialized and begin to live in terms of the Rules that defined the institutional arrangements of the societies into which they were born. A dialectical relations between the individual and the society may accomplish this. If one understand the use of language, reification will not occur.
Critical theory encourages asking the right questions.
What Mao, Thomas Jefferson, Lenin, Oliver Cromwell, Jean-Jacques Rosseau, Franz Fanon, and other critical thinkers is the idea that they all believed that they could in some way help to reconstruct the reality that later generations would come to experience. They could make people more self-conscious and aware. US has not had strong currents of this social thought. Live in world with its history, imagination, and collective experience, that is continually becoming known to us. Being revealed is a meaning in the world.