The Constitution of Society as Duality: The Case of America

Within Mocombeian structurationism, phenomenological structuralism, two ontological forms of how human beings would evolve to reproduce their being in the material world emerged amongst the species: the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism (communally) and the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism (individually). According to Mocombe, society emerged through five subsystems (mode of production, language, medium of communication, ideology, and ideological apparatuses), enframed by one of the two forms of system and social integration, constituted by those, i.e., power elites, who control the materials needed for survival in a material resource framework. The five subsystems are used to interpellate, integrate, and socialize the human species to constitute society and recursively organize and reproduce the ideas, ideals, values, and norms of the power elites as enframed by the two forms of system and social integration thereby forming a duality. This article highlights how society is constituted as both duality and dualism from the aforementioned structurationist perspective using America as a case study.