Weber

Question 1

What background shaped the hierachy of class for Weber?

Answer 1

• Privileged academic background around the 1920s

- Was a professor

Question 2

What was at the centre of Weber’s hierarchy of class?

Answer 2

Power - split into three stages of economic (economic order), status (social order) and political (political order) power.

Question 3

How are economic (economic order) and status (social order) categorised? How is political (political order) categorised?

Answer 3

Class and Status is Coercion

Political is Herrschaft

Question 4

According to Weber, class can be split into 3 stages of economic order, with the last being fueld by status and political power too - what are they?

Answer 4

Property class - People who receive income from different assets.
Commercial class - People who have control over goods and skills (entrepreneurs)
Social class - Privileged by property
- Property-less intellegentsia
- Petty Bourgeoise
- Working class

The social class hierarchy is determined by how much economic, social and political power they hold.

Question 5

According to Weber, it is believed that you can share the same status but not the same class, give an example

Answer 5

Both doctors may have high social class, however, if one doctor owns property and the other doesn’t then one will be a higher class