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The German sociologist Max Weber
Max Weber

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Weber became a lawyer, politician, scholar, political economy, and sociology....
 formulated a three-component theory of stratification
Three-component theory of stratification

The three-component theory of stratification, more widely known as Weberian Stratification or Three Class System, was developed by Germany sociologist Max Weber with social class, Social status and Political party as distinct ideal types....
 in which he defines status class (also known as a status group) as a group of people (part of a society
Society

A society is a group of humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture and/or institutions....
) that can be differentiated on the basis of non-economical qualities like honour
Honour

File:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpgHonour or Honor , is the evaluation of a person's trustworthiness and social social status based on that individual's espousals and actions....
, prestige
Prestige (sociology)

Prestige is a word commonly used to describe reputation or esteem, though it has three somewhat related meanings that, to some degree, may be contradictory....
 and religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
. Weber says bureaucracy
Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity, usually in large organizations and government. As opposed to adhocracy, it is represented by standardized procedure that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body, formal division of powers, hierarchy, and relationships....
 is the most powerful of all status groups (Max Weber, revised edition by Frank Parkin, 2002). Since Max Weber, the issue of status inconsistency has been the object of many studies because the phenomenon has itself been multiplied, particularly in the post-industrial societies
Post-industrial society

A post-industrial society is a society in which an economic transition has occurred from a secondary industry to a Tertiary sector of the economy, a diffusion of national and global capital, and mass privatization....
 and also because of an intervening factor: religion, particularly in emerging nations (see From Social Class and Religious Identity to Status Incongruence in Post-Industrial Societies by Mattei Dogan in Comparative Sociology 2004.

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The German sociologist Max Weber
Max Weber

Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany, Weber became a lawyer, politician, scholar, political economy, and sociology....
 formulated a three-component theory of stratification
Three-component theory of stratification

The three-component theory of stratification, more widely known as Weberian Stratification or Three Class System, was developed by Germany sociologist Max Weber with social class, Social status and Political party as distinct ideal types....
 in which he defines status class (also known as a status group) as a group of people (part of a society
Society

A society is a group of humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive culture and/or institutions....
) that can be differentiated on the basis of non-economical qualities like honour
Honour

File:Hamilton-burr-duel.jpgHonour or Honor , is the evaluation of a person's trustworthiness and social social status based on that individual's espousals and actions....
, prestige
Prestige (sociology)

Prestige is a word commonly used to describe reputation or esteem, though it has three somewhat related meanings that, to some degree, may be contradictory....
 and religion
Religion

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of myth, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendence quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth....
. Weber says bureaucracy
Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is the structure and set of regulations in place to control activity, usually in large organizations and government. As opposed to adhocracy, it is represented by standardized procedure that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body, formal division of powers, hierarchy, and relationships....
 is the most powerful of all status groups (Max Weber, revised edition by Frank Parkin, 2002). Since Max Weber, the issue of status inconsistency has been the object of many studies because the phenomenon has itself been multiplied, particularly in the post-industrial societies
Post-industrial society

A post-industrial society is a society in which an economic transition has occurred from a secondary industry to a Tertiary sector of the economy, a diffusion of national and global capital, and mass privatization....
 and also because of an intervening factor: religion, particularly in emerging nations (see From Social Class and Religious Identity to Status Incongruence in Post-Industrial Societies by Mattei Dogan in Comparative Sociology 2004.

It is contrasted to:
  • social class
    Social class

    Social class refers to the hierarchy distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Usually most societies have some notion of social class , but concretely defined social classes are not found in every known type of human societies....
    , based on economically determined relationship to the market.
  • party class
    Party class

    The sociologist Max Weber formulated a three-component theory of stratification in which he defines party class as a group of people that can be differentiated on the basis of their affiliations in the politics....
    , based on affiliation
    Affiliation

    In law, affiliation is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties....
    s in the political domain
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
    .