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A 5 page paper which compares class, status, and party as they relate to inequality. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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who addresses these issues was Karl Marx. However, one that is often referred to more often than Marx is Max Weber. "Weber is asserting that understanding economics and the distribution
of goods is not enough to understand class or social situation, as Marx claimed" (Waters). What Weber did was argue that there were special houses, those involving class, social order,
and parties (Waters). The following paper examines class, then status, and then party, as they can be used to help us understand inequality in society. Class When we think
of class we often think of economic class. However, class can also involve other conditions or aspects of society as well, for class is a very dynamic reality that is
constantly changing, involving different subclasses perhaps, different members within the class, and thus reflects many different things. One author notes that, "When we detect a social tendency, or a movement
oriented towards a given end, then we can recognise the existence of a class in the true sense of the word" (Party and Class). At the same time, it is
perhaps generally agreed upon that class is largely related to economic position. Webers theories were imbedded in such perspectives. "[F]or Weber there are many more possible classes than just capitalists
and workers and he does not consider ownership or non-ownership of the means of production to be the major source of class formation in capitalism" (Sociology 250, 2003). For those
in a class that only provides services, and perhaps skills, there is little opportunity to be seen as equals by other classes, and so on further up the chain as
well. Each economic class generally has its own little world, so to speak. Any class that is considered to be lower is not equal. For example, those who own big
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