Karl Marx v.s. Max Weber

Karl Marx V.S. Max Weber

Unlike Karl Marx, Max Weber insisted that no single characteristic totally defines a person's position within the stratification system. Weber’s essay “Class, Status, Party” was extremely controversial and contradicted the beliefs of Karl Marx. In the following paragraphs I’ll explain why he distinguishes between class and status, and the important differences between Weber’s Analysis of social stratification and Marx’s.
Weber used the term “class” to refer to people who have a similar level of wealth and income. For example, certain workers in the United States have to work minimum wage jobs to support themselves. According to Weber’s beliefs these wage earners form a class, because they are at the same economic level. Weber agreed with Marx on this view, but not entirely. Weber believed that you cannot determine a group by there economic level alone, there were other factors which played an equal roll.
Weber used the term “stat...