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Critically examine Max Weber’s theory of Social Stratification.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Stratification and Mobility

In "Class, Status, Party" (Economy and Society, 1922), Max Weber broke with the single economic axis of Karl Marx. Inequality, he argued, runs through three relatively autonomous orders: market-based class, honour-based status group and power-seeking party. Pluralism is the theory's strength; critics say it is also its weakness.

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  • The theory at its strongest
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