Social stratification and dissociation, Telos or aberration?

Abstract

This work considers the process of progressive disintegration of human instrumental survival strategies since they constituted a whole social fact. Embedded in the social life of primitive peoples, the instrumental operations that subtend culture, economy, politics, work, leisure, fragmented into as many dominions which, notwithstanding their mutual relative autonomy, allowed power relations to emerge and permitted the hegemonic dominance of economy to tie all the others in dependency to itself. Labor division and production, that produced the means of liberating capital, promoted social stratification and class inequality in organic societies. Immediately after or simultaneously, labor became a meaningless activity to the laborer, due to the growing fragmentation of the tasks and, consequently of all the aspects of social life, driving to the actual state of generalized social dissociation in postmodern society.