Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

This paper is written in Spanish. It classifies the society, its cativities and organisations by three dimensions: those of the markets, the hierarchies and inter-human alliances. Because each dimension is autonomous, any comparative assessment of a change in social phenomena becomes a comparison of a 3-dimensional vector. Thus many social situations cannot be ranked and Pareto-optimality is a rare objective to pursue without unambiguous results.