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Critically examine the Marxian theory of social stratification.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Western Political Thought

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Social stratification is the ranking of groups in a durable hierarchy of unequal access to wealth, power and prestige. Karl Marx reduced this hierarchy to one axis, class, defined by ownership of the means of production, and read it as a relation of exploitation and conflict rather than a ladder of ranks. The theory is…

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  • The Marxian Theory
  • Critical Examination
  • The Contemporary Test
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