Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
“According to Max Weber, ‘class’ and ‘status’ are two different dimensions of power.” Discuss.
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- Stratification and Mobility
For Max Weber, power is "the chance of a man or of a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others". In "Class, Status, Party" (Economy and Society, 1922) he treated classes, status groups and parties as three forms in which this chance is distributed.…
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- Power as the common denominator
- Class: power in the market
- Status: power through honour
- Why they are different, yet linked
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- Limits of the statement
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