A Critical Comparison Of Marx And Weber’s Conceptualizations Of Social Stratification

Marx’s Conceptualization of Social StratificationSocial stratification refers to the hierarchical classification of people into categories of wealth, power, social class, status, and groups in the society. Inheritance is a major determinant of one’s social status. Those who inherit wealth have a chance of raising their social status. Other people climb through the social status as a result of hard earned wealth (Lenski, 2013: 4-5). The…