Reprodução social, trabalho e educação: um estudo à luz da ontologia do ser social de Lukács

Abstract

This study demonstrates the problems that configure social reproduction, outlining the especificities of labor and education mediantions. Its refential basis is Lukács' Ontology of Social Being, mainly the chapter The Reproduction. Distinct from other authors, such as Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Bordieu and Passeron, the category of "reproduction" in Lukács acquires a broader and more complex approach, as an essential moment to make explicit the continuity of the being of the human social life, by the agency of its several stages throughout history. Being, that only reproduces itself for having, as its material substratum, an organic being and an inorganic being. And, from those beings it can never become independent. Nevertheless, as reproduction develops, the social being keeps away from itself the natural barriers, its immediate links with the natural world, when its configurational categories, predominantly natural, conquest a purely social predominance; an example may be found in the cases of alimentation, sexuality and labor divisin. On the other hand, distinct from the reproduction of the organic being, social reproduction realizes itself by the way of two different poles, but dialectically imbricated: reproduction of individual and reproduction of society. Reproductions socially mediated by countless complexes, such as, labor, language, education, labor divisin, cooperation, ideology, regulation of relationships and social activities etc. This study analyzes, facing this overall and more general categorical framework, the specific mediations of labor and education.