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What is Weberian critique of Marxist notion of social stratification?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Stratification and Mobility

Max Weber's sociology is often read as a long argument with the legacy of Karl Marx. He did not dismiss Marx: he agreed that property is the most basic class division. His critique targeted a monocausal and teleological reading of stratification, in which everything flows from ownership of the means of production and history moves…

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  • The Marxist notion under critique
  • Lines of the Weberian critique
  • How the critique was carried forward
  • Marxist rejoinders
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