Max Weber and Karl Marx

Karl Marx believed that all individuals' social relationships were based on each individual's economic relationships. Particularly, Marx believed that every person was born into a specific social class, and each person's social class was determined by his or her parents' "property relations" (Matters of Sociological Thought, p. 16). Essentially, Marx defined "property relations" as the relationship between each person and the "modes of economic production" in a society (Matters of Sociological Thought, p. 45). Marx believed that these property relations defined the role that each person would play in society. For example, workers only own their ability to work, which they sell to the capitalists, who own the money to pay the workers. Thus, Marx believed that "the relations men establish with each other . . . in the purs

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