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A 3 page discussion of the economic polarization that is being witnessed in contemporary U.S. society. The author asserts that Weber's multidimensional model of stratification is more applicable to this scenario than is Marx's visions of the bourgeoisie and proletariat. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The country seems destined to a time when our population is so economically polarized that numerous changes will come about in the status quo. Some
might predict that social upheaval will be the ultimate result. They would contend that as the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen so does the
discontent among those at the lowest economic echelon and that ultimately that portion of the society would rise up to overthrow the other. Karl Marx, for example, might make
this prediction. Others, however, would argue that society will simply adjust to the polarization and that changes in the marketing of goods would be just one reflection of that
adjustment. Such might be the contention of Max Weber. Under Marxist thought society is stratified into two major classes, the
very poor and the very rich. These classes are the bourgeoisie and proletariat. While Marx acknowledged the existence of a intermediary classes, he claims that these classes will
eventually disappear in society. Marx proposed an address of this situation by calling for an overthrow of the bourgeoisie, a change in the power structure of the time to
allow rule by the previously exploited working class (the proletariat,) and the termination of class-based society. Marxist demanded communal property in the place of private property, a completely different
prospect for the status quo of the day where the lives of the commoners were ruled by the elite. If Marx were to examine contemporary U.S. society specifically it
is likely that he would predict the collapse of capitalism and he predicted in other scenarios. If one examines Marxs original theory on the collapse of capitalism in more
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