ABSTRACT
Weber’s account of class and status For Weber (1967), inequality is a difference in life chances. He considers ‘status’ and ‘class’ to be two social mechanisms that may allocate life chances. A difference in status is a difference in life chances allocated through a system of shared values. He writes:
we wish to designate as ‘status situation’ every typical component of the life fate of men that is determined by a specific, positive or negative, social estimation of honor.
