MAX WEBER ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION


 

The Basics

The role of values

    Values as independent variables
    Values and interests as complementary

Class—occupational situation
    Market for labor
    Class-oriented action
    Classes within classes
        Rentiers and entrepreneurs
        Middle classes
        Working classes

Status—valuing and evaluating 
    Prestige rankings and social honor
    Life-styles
        Preferences and beliefs
        Status-oriented actions and choices
    Life-chances
        Opportunity structure
    Discrimination
        Occupational monopolization
        Educational exclusionism
        Commensalism and connubialism
        Civic culture
        Caste system

Industrialization and bureaucratization
    Ideal type of bureacracy
        Hierarchy, command, merit, office, rules
        Impersonalization and dehumanization
    Friendly fascism—gladhanding + OBHF
    Corporatism
        Taylorism and consultants
        Managerialism--Druckerism
        Ownership vs. control