Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In Marxist philosophy, reification is the "conversion of the subject to an object, as when the worker becomes a commodity", or the process by which human social relations are perceived as inherent attributes of the people involved in them, or attributes of some product of the relation, such as a traded commodity. Wikipedia

The consideration of an abstraction of an object as if it had living existence and abilities Wikipedia Disambiguation

Treating social constructs as if they were natural things or attributes in themselves Wikidata