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Karl Marx and Max Weber have different views upon social class in contemporary societies. In Karl Marx's perspective, social class has a two-class system whereas Max Weber argued that social class has three dimensions of stratification: class, status and party. In this essay, I will explain and analyse why Weber carried out this theory that these three dimensions are distinct entities and cannot be resolved under the single concept of class. A "class" is any group of persons occupying the same class status. Unlike Marx's two-class system, Weber divided "class" into four categories: propertied upper class, propertyless intelligentsia (white-collar workers), the petty bourgeoisie, and the manual working class. A propertied class is placed at the top because they own economic power, social status and political influence. A propertyless intelligentsia is a professional class. It was placed next because they not only have relatively high social status and some...

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