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Title: Social Class - Comparisons and contrasts involving the theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber
Description: Karl Marx and Max Weber are well known sociologists, who have many things common as well as they differ on many points. This is a perfect comparison between two theories of these two great sociologists.

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Comparisons and contrasts involving the theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber on
social class
Inequality between people will be the basis from the democratic system
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But this belief is by using the assumption
that people are given equal advantages and opportunities
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This essay, using sociological explanations,
compares the differences and similarities between Marx and Weber’s theories of class
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Finally, this
essay reveals that Weber emerges because better theorist because he can explain many
complexities of recent stratification thereby providing a much better explanation for class in
contemporary society
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Sociologists
have considering the term 'social stratification' to spell out inequalities
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Social stratification includes all kinds of inequalities like gender,
ethnicity, age and political power, in addition to that of class inequality
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"Some proportions of stratification can sometimes
include the amount of property one owns, the honour one receives, the ethnic group into what
one is born or perhaps the income one receives" (Waters and Crook, 1993:174)
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It is to your work of Karl
Marx (1818-1883) we should turn, to discover the origins with the contemporary debate about
class in contemporary sociology
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Such a social process on the class struggle, argues Marx, constrains and
shapes the lives of the individuals within a society (Haralambos and Holborn, 1995:35)
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This process 'allocates' individuals into various class positions
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Therefore class is usually to be understood as being a
social structure in excess of structures of gender or ethnicity
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For Marx the true secret classes inside the capitalist mode of
production will be the bourgeoisie (the course which owns and controls the method of production
and property) and proletariat (the category which doesn't own the ways of production, the
exploited property-less wage workers)
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Further, Marx observed,
there would have been a struggle between classes on the proportion of wages to profits (Waters
and Crook, 1993:176)
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Marx maintained that to all class societies the ruling class exploits and oppresses the
niche class" (Haralambos and Holborn, 1995:34)
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Giddens (1997:245) writes "Marx's idea of class directs us towards objectively structured
economic inequalities in society
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So Marx isn't quite the easy advocate of two classes
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However he thought these 'intermediate'
classes wouldn't contribute to social change (Waters and Crook, 1993:177)
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Weber
certainly believed that classes existed understanding that they were significant to your life with
the modern individual
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However these courses are not,
for Weber, located within the production process because they are in Marx's work
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Markets such as being the labour markets,
the commodity markets as well as the money markets
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According to Weber, class divisions arise from economic differences, who
have nothing straight to do with property
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Weber, unlike Marx, explains other size of stratification besides class
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Status groups for
Weber, can have sources outside class: those who work inside the same place think they have
much in keeping, for instance, even though they are part of different classes
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What people in status groups have in common is often a style of life
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Finally, you'll find independent systems of
political ability to, where groups known generally as 'parties' (that might include pressure groups
or informal lobbying outfits like consumer protest movements) struggle for capacity to influence
legislation in order to control and limit markets etc
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Just as
status groups can both divide classes and cut across boundaries, so parties can divide and cut
across both classes and status groups
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The development of
contemporary bureaucracy helps make the picture of class more advanced again
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Bureaucrats form a status group, and something, which cultivates and
reinforces its position
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Polarisation meaning the gap relating to the proletariat and bourgeoisie will end
up greater
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Weber rejected this
belief held by Marx and would not believe that people sharing an identical class position would
take collective action but suggested the proletarian may react in the variety of ways
(Haralambos and Holborn, 1995:37)
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They are based, he tells, on competition between individuals permanently
occupations rich in incomes
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, 1996:145)

The problem of any Marxist meaning of class is always that Marx died before he completed his
work with 'what produces a class'
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From Marx himself we have the idea that
classes could be understood as clusters or categories of individuals obtaining the same
relationship with the strategy of (economic) production in almost any given society
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He sees class for an essential
element of societies and for an essential aspect of your life
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Weber had argued that Marx was too narrow in their views
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Weber felt that there are
more than just one explanation to your rise of capitalism
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The underlying theme in both from the theories is
capitalism rose coming from a personal society with a highly impersonal society
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Marx saw the
impersonal system inside alienation with the proletariat workers
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Marx, however, speaks
directly of your revolution along with the self-destruction in the capitalistic society
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He had seen the rise from the bureaucratic
powers in western society, and saw how society was becoming much less personal
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People have lost feeling of community and gained
the feeling of individuality
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These differences reflect, among other things, the several stages of social development which
Marx and Weber experienced
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Marx died earlier, and was struck from the dynamics of capitalist
industrialisation
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Marx
and Weber deserve our attention only if because they sensitise us to these size of our everyday
lives and suggest strategies to understanding them
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But Marx puts his focus on property
ownership, while Weber specializes in labour value
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Weber, unlike Marx, has a multi causal approach when explaining social phenomena
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For here Weber is
arguing that non-economic factors for instance 'family background', 'educational attainment' and
'culture/beliefs' are essential causal factors inside determination of class
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Weber emerges because the better theorist, when
he can explain a lot of complexities of contemporary stratification, while Marx is viewed to
reduce everything right down to one fundamental model depending on his own analysis of
capitalism as exploitation
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Marx's attempt for a

formal definition usefully indicates the social bases of class; this process fails to take adequate
account of the other classes that take place in society
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Title: Social Class - Comparisons and contrasts involving the theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber
Description: Karl Marx and Max Weber are well known sociologists, who have many things common as well as they differ on many points. This is a perfect comparison between two theories of these two great sociologists.