| |
| | Weber - The Work - Class, status, and Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | He argued that communal class action will emerge only if and when the "connections between the causes and the consequences of the 'class situation' " become transparent; Marx would have said when a class becomes conscious of its interests, that is, of its relation, as a class, to other classes. |
 | | In contrast to classes, which may or may not be communal groupings, status groups are normally communities, which are held together by notions of proper life-styles and by the social esteem and honor accorded to them by others. |
 | | Generally, as much pos-Weberian analysis of American politics has shown, political behavior may at times be influenced by men who are fearful of losing their status or who bridle at not having been accorded a status they think is their due; such influence may be as powerful as class-determined modes of political behavior. |
| www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Weber/WEBERW7.HTML (668 words) |
|