Max Weber's Perspective on Social Stratification

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I found unit 6 content on social stratification most intriguing, specifically, the perspective of theorist Max Weber. The theorist explains social stratification in detail, breaking it down into three dimensions; power, wealth and prestige (Unit 6). Weber argues that power can be possessed or exercised. Possessed power happens when a person controls certain social resources. This kind of power gives people an entrepreneurial mandate and the power to directly or indirectly share capital returns. The resources, in this case, can be social respect, intellectual knowledge or capital.
Exercising power can happen through economic class, social status and political party. Economic power is determined by a person's status in the market. Weber argues that a person becomes powerful when they have something others do not have, makin...