We explain what a social being is, why the human being is and the impact of the social on health. Also, the vision of Marxist theory.
What is a social being?
When speaking of a social being, especially with regard to human being, you are referring to your need to exist within a society, that is, to be part of a group or a group community, from which he gains a sense of belonging and a sense of identity collective.
This human trait, that of being a gregarious being (that is, it tends to form communities), has been recognized since ancient times by scholars of our species. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322), for example, called the human being a "political animal" (zoon politikón) or “civic animal”, in the sense that, unlike other animals, humans are capable of creating societies with a high level of organization and socialization complex.
It has been shown that, lacking a social environment, human beings suffer suffering and their mental and emotional life deteriorate. Not in vain the exile or the exile Since ancient times they have been very common punishments for those who are considered enemies of society or traitors to it.
On the other hand, the Marxism understands social being in another way: the material relationship between human beings and nature, and between different social classes, throughout the process of production of goods. It is a concept closely related to social conscience, which is the set of ideas or intellectual representations that the human being has with respect to the same process (and the place he occupies in it).
That is, for Marxism, social being is the social place that the human being occupies in the chain of relations of production, while social consciousness would be the degree of conscienceprecisely what he has regarding his social being.