What did Weber mean by “Party” in his three component class theory?
Organisations created in the sphere of power: to achieve certain ends. more specifically: 1. political parties 2 the bureaucracy (in both politics and in large corporate businesses) for example Gerth and Mills wrote about Weber’s :analysis of the difference between Class,Status and Party in this way: ‘Whereas the genuine place of ‘classes’ is within the economic order, the place of ‘status groups’ is within the social order, that is, within the sphere of the distribution of ‘honour.’ …… But ‘parties’ live in a house of ‘power.’ Their action is oriented toward the acquisition of social ‘power,’ that is to say, toward influencing a communal action no matter what its content may be…. …Parties also differ from classes or status groups in that they attempt to achieve goals in a planned manner, and thus are rational. There are various aims, goals, or purposes that the party attempts to achieve. It considers various possible ways of achieving these, and selects a course of action that
