Stratification and
Inequality
G93.2137
Spring
2005
Robert
Max Jackson
- What
is the relationship between “class” and
“status” in Weber’s work.
- How would you respond to someone who claims that Weber has shown
that
class, status, and power are three distinct bases of stratification?
- Assess the relationship between political processes and class
conflict
in Weber’s analyses (comparing to Marx, implicitly or
explicitly, is largely unavoidable).
- How do the big questions that motivate Weber’s work compare
to the big questions motivating Marx’s work?
- What is the engine of historical change in Weber’s analysis?
- What role, if any, does inequality per se play in Weber’s
analysis?
- If Schumpeter, Marx, and Weber were asked to identify the key
distinguishing characteristics of modern society, how and why would
their responses differ?
- Making sense of the transition from feudalism to capitalism is a
key
starting point for most classical social theory. How do
Schumpeter, Marx, and Weber think differently about this?
Consider what are the most important changes, what produces the
changes, and how each might be expected to respond to the others.
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