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A 6 page discussion of the phenomena of social stratification as seen through the writings of Karl Marx and Max Weber. This paper contends that Weber’s view of a multidimensional stratification is more applicable to contemporary U.S. society than is Marx’s view of a two leveled separation of bourgeoisie and proletariat. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Social stratification is the result of such factors as difference in lifeways and types of subsistence but also a result of factors such as economics and
politics. While social stratification is an undeniable element of society, the particulars of that stratification is often a highly debated subject. Two of the most predominant debaters of
this issue are Karl Marx and Max Weber. Of these, however, it can be contended that it is Weber who has the most relevance to contemporary U.S. society.
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 one examines Marxs original theory on the collapse of capitalism it becomes apparent that
the theory failed in the empirical sense but, as Burowoy (1990) points out, to understand such theories it is necessary to look at both their internal and external histories.
Although many interpret the target of the "Communist Manifesto", the now infamous book by Marx, as being capitalism as a whole this is not exactly the case. The Manifesto
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