In his work, "The Distribution of Power Within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party", Max Weber gives a very detailed description of how society works within its classes, status groups and parties. All communities are arranged in a way where goods from different type, tangible and intangible, symbolic and material are distributed. Thus, such distribution is always unequal and necessarily involves power. As Weber explains, " 'classes', 'status groups', and 'parties' are phenomena of the distribution of power within a community" (Webber, 207). In many ways this explains why class conflict does not dominate politics in advanced industrial societies. More specifically, class conflict is not a dominant factor in the politics of more industrialized societies, since the distribution of power depicts a stable backbone to support and provide for the classes, thus instead of conflicting with one another they create a social mobility between the classes.
In order to grasp the idea of power being a support center for classes, status groups and parties, more detailed observations are needed on what they represent and stand for in Weber's perspective idea.
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Max Weber 1917 at the Lauensteiner Tagung. In back...In Webber's ideas we see how status groups define social order, classes make the economic order and the parties the legal/political order. Each order is interrelated and affects the other. However, no distribution between the classes, status groups and parties would be possible without the existence of a strong authoritarian power to execute what is best for the society. Power, as Webber defines it, is "the chance of a man or a number of men to realize their own will in a social action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action" (Weber, 206). He provides examples of different types of power, resting in a variety of bases. Economically conditioned power is differentiated from...