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Discuss Weber's account of Class and Status Max Weber was a 19th century German scholar, his writings are best known for their historical grasp of western societies and their economic, political and religious development [Morrison, 1995:213]. He had distinctly modernist emphasis to his studies, focussing on formation of bureaucracy and development of the modern state to name a few examples. Although influenced by many great thinkers the theme that prevails in Weber's work (especially where concerning capitalism) is that of Karl Marx, Weber opposed many of Marx's beliefs, which spurred Weber's development of forming completely different opinion concerning the role of history in social development [Morrison, 1995:214]. Weber's view on stratification1 of society, which he developed in the early 1900s, is far more complicated than Marx's2. According to Weber there are three levels of stratification, these are class, status and power. This essay will focus on how Weber defined class...

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