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Stratification and Working Class Decline A large amount of the sociological debate on social class has focused on whether the working class is in decline or more recently if they are perhaps becoming middle class. Modern politicians often suggest that we are living in a "classless society", Tony Blair in 2000 stated that the "class struggle has ended." Karl Marx (1818-83) however believed that there are two classes in a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie, who owns the means of production and the workers, who are exploited because they could only survive by selling their labour power to the bourgeoisie. Marx's immiseration thesis predicted that class divisions would become more polarised as intermediate classes merged with either the bourgeoisie or sink into the working class. Max Weber (1864-1920) distinguished class groupings into four categories, these being the propertied class, the property less white-collar workers, the petty bourgeoisie and the manual working class. Weber...

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