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In this essay, I would try to critically evaluate Weber's contention that class, status and party are distinct entities and cannot be resolved under the single concept of class.
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Unlike Karl Marx's view that the society could be simply stratified into different classes, Max Weber argued that there should be three main dimensions in social stratification: class, status and party. In this essay, I would try to critically evaluate Weber's contention that class, status and party are distinct entities and cannot be resolved under the single concept of class. Though Weber agreed with Marx that in capitalist society, the ownership and non-ownership of the means of production is a very important factor to determine different classes, he considered the market situation as an important one as well and defined a class as a group of individuals who share a similar position in a market economy, and by virtue of that fact receive similar rewards. (Haralambos, 2000, p36) Weber classified the capitalist society generally into four classes: the propertied upper class, the propertyless intelligentsias (white-collar workers), the petty bourgeoisie and the...
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