ABSTRACT
For Jean-Paul Sartre, the human individual is at the beginning of each and every social phenomenon. The individual pledges his life to the group; and in all transformations, he remains the author of all social products. Social structure is not a behavior; it is the product of an analytical rationality which becomes intelligible through individual action only. There are two aspects of structure which can clarify its general meaning. The first has to do with the fact that it is the potential field for the acts of the individual. The second has to do with the fact that it serves as the individual's means for arriving at a certain end. In the analysis of social structure as means, the idea of instrumentality refers to inertia. Both the material and human fields become means that are quantifiable, predictable and manageable. Every person becomes a calculable element to facilitate analytical rationality of social forms as though they were independent of human praxis.
