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Explain Max Weber’s theory of social stratification. How does Weber’s idea of class differ from that of Marx?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Stratification and Mobility

Max Weber saw stratification as the outcome of a struggle over scarce resources fought along three separate lines: economic, social and political. Against the single-factor model of Karl Marx, he argued in Economy and Society (1922) that class is only one way power is unequally shared, and that its meaning changes once it is moved…

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